6 Dec
2018
6 Dec
'18
11:22 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 12:25:13 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'... Microsoft is planning to replace its Edge browser, which uses Microsoft's own EdgeHTML rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine, with a new browser built on Chromium...'
From <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/06/microsoft_edge_chromium/>: The new Edge won't be a Universal Windows Platform app in order to make it usable outside of Windows 10, which accounts for about half of all Windows installations. Instead, it will be buil[t] in accordance with the Win32 API, for compatibility with Windows 7 and 8 as well as 10. A preview release is planned for early 2019. That “Universal Windows Platform” gets less attractive by the day ...