In a publication on his own blog, Microsoft has detailed the dozens of changes that will fundamentally differentiate the next Web browser of the firm, Microsoft Edge , the current Internet Explorer.
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This publication is an update of the original article, which dates back to last February, and it provides more detail on the differences between the rendering engine of IE and the Edge.
The publication focuses mainly Web rendering engine, which controls how the browser will interpret the content displayed on any given page and how, unlike IE, Edge will run on an almost entirely new platform and built with performance in mind.
Some of the most recognizable features are abandoned in the transition from Internet Explorer to Edge . Among these, mention may be made ActiveX, DirectX filters, or VBScript. They were all sidelined, despite the fact that it is inseparable elements of the IE experience.
200,000 lines of code removed
By leaving these side scripting languages, the Edge will be a cleaner browser, and also more lightweight than its prédécesseur.Microsoft certainly hope that it will be able to compete in the benchmarks, and other performance benchmarks.
"We will support existing technologies in Microsoft Edge, offering a number of advantages" , said the development team in the article. The browser will offer greater interoperability with other modern browsers, improved performance, security and reliability, it said. The complexity of the code has also been reduced . "And like all good developers, our team eliminated code - 220 000 lines of code in MSHTML were removed from Microsoft EdgeHTML " says Microsoft.
According to the article, abandoning those characteristics, the company believes that Edge will be able to compete - and exceed - with competitors such as Firefox or Chrome. This would be simply because of the youth of his development that better reflects how people use the Web.
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This publication is an update of the original article, which dates back to last February, and it provides more detail on the differences between the rendering engine of IE and the Edge.
The publication focuses mainly Web rendering engine, which controls how the browser will interpret the content displayed on any given page and how, unlike IE, Edge will run on an almost entirely new platform and built with performance in mind.
200,000 lines of code removed
By leaving these side scripting languages, the Edge will be a cleaner browser, and also more lightweight than its prédécesseur.Microsoft certainly hope that it will be able to compete in the benchmarks, and other performance benchmarks.
"We will support existing technologies in Microsoft Edge, offering a number of advantages" , said the development team in the article. The browser will offer greater interoperability with other modern browsers, improved performance, security and reliability, it said. The complexity of the code has also been reduced . "And like all good developers, our team eliminated code - 220 000 lines of code in MSHTML were removed from Microsoft EdgeHTML " says Microsoft.
According to the article, abandoning those characteristics, the company believes that Edge will be able to compete - and exceed - with competitors such as Firefox or Chrome. This would be simply because of the youth of his development that better reflects how people use the Web.