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> But Microsoft Edge has done more than just re-write the rendering engine... > Microsoft Edge hosts a new rendering engine, Microsoft EdgeHTML > The largest
by Osiris 11y ago
> But Microsoft Edge has done more than just re-write the rendering engine...
> Microsoft Edge hosts a new rendering engine, Microsoft EdgeHTML
> The largest change in Microsoft Edge security is that the new browser is a Universal Windows app.
Everything they'd said in their press releases, including this one, says that the browser is a completely rewrite from scratch, though leveraging lessons learned on security.
edit: I stand corrected. Is there evidence that the application (Edge) itself is based on IE or just the rendering engine?
- azakai 11y agoActually, the information said that they forked their existing rendering engine, and started to remove all the cruft they didn't care about any more. That led to a lot of new code and faster development - but it isn't entirely from scratch. edit: See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML that mentions it beginning as a fork of Trident.
- Osiris 11y agoThanks for the correction.
- lazaroclapp 11y agoTrue enough as far as it goes, but isn't that like saying that people running a current version of Firefox are still using code from the Netscape 4? A fork of Trident that is not afraid of deprecating unsafe features and breaking backwards-compatibility for the sake of standards-compatibility isn't necessarily a worse thing than a from-scratch-new rendering engine.