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Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Jun 19, 2019

Edge for MacOS is coming

Last month Microsoft revealed that its future browser. Edge is coming for MacOS. While I'm no fan of the browser on Windows, this is great news for all web artisans who should test our creations in at least the major browsers: Chrome Firefox Edge T...

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#programming #general-advice #macos

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Vladimir Kostov

Browser extension developer

Jun 19, 2019

Can someone dumb down this Microsoft move for me? What is happening?

I get that they want people to be using Edge, by expanding the group of people that can use it, yet still, I think that even then Edge is going to achieve slim to nothing.

I agree that it's not gonna be a game changer. Of course it's a big deal for Microsoft, they can use their browser to track browsing trends and be on the edge. But they already accumulated so many negative feelings for their browsers that it's probably gonna be difficult and as Caleb H. said, it's just Chrome in a different package now.

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

Jun 19, 2019

Caleb H.

Co-founder of High/Low

Jun 19, 2019

I downloaded the beta a while back, and it looked and ran better than the old edge.

But we probably won't have to test our code for Edge anymore, because they've based it on Chrome now.

So basically we test for Chrome and Firefox now.

Caleb H.

Co-founder of High/Low

Jun 19, 2019

Maybe so. I've never tested for Edge anyway, because I use basic HTML/CSS to design webpages 90% of the time.

But you're also forgetting Safari, which is still a major browser.

Amrit Pandey

Anti-Dogmatic Programmer

Jun 20, 2019

Safari use WebKit and Chrome use a fork of WebKit, so on a lower scale there is not much difference.

Caleb H.

Co-founder of High/Low

Jun 23, 2019

True, though I've had significant differences with the JS engine on Safari...maybe it's because I'm running High Sierra and not Mojave?