5 Dec
2018
5 Dec
'18
12:29 a.m.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 12:25:13 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/report-microsoft-is-scrapping-edge-s...
As that article makes clear, the main problems with Edge are in areas other than the HTML rendering. So getting rid of its HTML-rendering engine and substituting another one isn’t likely to help. What it will do is reduce the biodiversity among the beating HTML hearts of the common web browsers. Such biodiversity is a rather important part of ensuring that open standards (like HTML and CSS) remain open. Such a step by Microsoft will only further entrench the dominance of the WebKit-derived HTML renderers.