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I dont understand, is this a new internet explorer or a successor to it ?

by jbub 11y ago

braum 11y ago
supposedly, from what I have heard, it is a new browser with no legacy code base. And possibly that old IE plugins still work (not entirely sure on this last part).
- kuschku 11y ago
  It doesn’t support any old IE plugins, it contains none of the IE/7/8/9/10 codebase, but instead is based on only the newly written parts of IE11, and it supports Firefox and Chrome addons.
  - egeozcan 11y ago
    Wow. Why aren't they marketing this? Creating a browser from scratch, considering the current state of web technologies is a huge undertaking. I always thought it's just a re-skinned IE with some touch features.
    - icebraining 11y ago
      Not really from scratch, they forked Trident, removed the crap and built from there.
- __Joker 11y ago
  Not sure about IE plugins but it supports the plugin's from Firefox and Chrome[1]. Technical details would be interesting, but migrating would be little frictionless, if anybody want to try the Edge. [1]. http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8515771/microsofts-edge-browser-supports-chrome-and-firefox-extensions http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8515771/microsofts-edge-br...
quonn 11y ago
It's a fork of the underlying MSHTML engine, that adds some new standard support and more importantly throws out the old compatibility modes and other legacy. It will run in parallel to IE, which is here to stay for enterprise customers.
- Touche 11y ago
  > It's a fork of the underlying MSHTML engine, that adds some new standard support There's always new standards, so of course there is new standard support, just as IE is getting new standard support. Effectively it is a redesign and rebranding of IE. Nothing wrong with that, but let's call a spade a spade.
  - fishfacemcgee 11y ago
    It is IE12 with non of the legacy IE support. Their talk of update speed suggests it'll resemble Chrome and Firefox in terms of updates.
  - manigandham 11y ago
    It's not a redesign, it's a completely new browser built clean and based on EdgeHTML. IE will still be around as a separate browser that can be used in environments it's needed but Spartan/Edge is completely new and the way forward for the mainstream users. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/24/updates-from-the-project-spartan-developer-workshop.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/24/updates-from-t...
    - icebraining 11y ago
      No, it's not completely new from scratch: So we set about to create a new engine using IE11’s standards support as a baseline. I watched Justin Rogers, one of our engineers, press “Enter” on the commit that forked the engine—it took almost 45 minutes just to process it (just committing the changes, not building!). http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts-new-rendering-engine-project-spartan/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts...

I dont understand, is this a new internet explorer or a successor to it ?

by jbub 11y ago

I dont understand, is this a new internet explorer or a successor to it ?

braum 11y ago

supposedly, from what I have heard, it is a new browser with no legacy code base. And possibly that old IE plugins still work (not entirely sure on this last part).

kuschku 11y ago
It doesn’t support any old IE plugins, it contains none of the IE/7/8/9/10 codebase, but instead is based on only the newly written parts of IE11, and it supports Firefox and Chrome addons.
- egeozcan 11y ago
  Wow. Why aren't they marketing this? Creating a browser from scratch, considering the current state of web technologies is a huge undertaking. I always thought it's just a re-skinned IE with some touch features.
  - icebraining 11y ago
    Not really from scratch, they forked Trident, removed the crap and built from there.
__Joker 11y ago
Not sure about IE plugins but it supports the plugin's from Firefox and Chrome[1]. Technical details would be interesting, but migrating would be little frictionless, if anybody want to try the Edge. [1]. http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8515771/microsofts-edge-browser-supports-chrome-and-firefox-extensions http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8515771/microsofts-edge-br...

quonn 11y ago

It's a fork of the underlying MSHTML engine, that adds some new standard support and more importantly throws out the old compatibility modes and other legacy. It will run in parallel to IE, which is here to stay for enterprise customers.

Touche 11y ago
> It's a fork of the underlying MSHTML engine, that adds some new standard support There's always new standards, so of course there is new standard support, just as IE is getting new standard support. Effectively it is a redesign and rebranding of IE. Nothing wrong with that, but let's call a spade a spade.
- fishfacemcgee 11y ago
  It is IE12 with non of the legacy IE support. Their talk of update speed suggests it'll resemble Chrome and Firefox in terms of updates.
- manigandham 11y ago
  It's not a redesign, it's a completely new browser built clean and based on EdgeHTML. IE will still be around as a separate browser that can be used in environments it's needed but Spartan/Edge is completely new and the way forward for the mainstream users. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/24/updates-from-the-project-spartan-developer-workshop.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/24/updates-from-t...
  - icebraining 11y ago
    No, it's not completely new from scratch: So we set about to create a new engine using IE11’s standards support as a baseline. I watched Justin Rogers, one of our engineers, press “Enter” on the commit that forked the engine—it took almost 45 minutes just to process it (just committing the changes, not building!). http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts-new-rendering-engine-project-spartan/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/26/inside-microsofts...