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Internet Explorer's Successor, Project Spartan, Is Called Microsoft Edge
An anonymous reader writes: At its Build 2015 developer conference today, Microsoft announced Project Spartan will be called Microsoft Edge. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the operating systems group, announced the news on stage, adding that Edge will have support for extensions. Edge is Microsoft's new browser shipping on all Windows 10 devices (PCs, tablets, smartphones, and so on). Belfiore explained the name as referring to "being on the edge of consuming and creating."
On the edge of relevance, more like!
So.. ME instead of IE? ME.... reminds me of Windows ME. *shudder*.
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What's the slashdot equivalent of "shitpost?" You might have at least mentioned that it's going to have a new renderer and support for extensions, rather than just farting out a 3 sentence blurb about the name.
However, only Edge will use Microsoft’s new rendering engine of the same name. ...
Developers will be able to take their Chrome extensions or Firefox add-ons and, with “just a few changes,” bring them to Microsoft Edge. Belfiore demoed a Reddit extension originally built for Chrome, running on Microsoft Edge.
And yeah, the "Reddit extension" in question is RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite).
Safari works the same way. That's why folks with older Mac hardware who aren't running the latest OS can't run the latest Safari.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
It wasn't always like that. Windows XP went from, what, IE5 or 6 all the way up to IE9? Or something like that? Anyway I'm sure I have the version numbers wrong, but several versions were supported under XP.
How are people going to tell which big E means Internet?
AKA "Wow, the DMV is full of people who look different to me, because of that, I'm going to discriminate against them all".
For all the new edge use cases of extra css and js conditional statements needed to display content properly ... ducks
http://saveie6.com/
The last big news about Windows 10 was Spartan. Today's big news about Windows 10 is that Spartan has been re-named.
I can't tell you how excited I am. Really, I can't.
Makes job much easier for Web developers to have a more up to date and compliant browser. Grandma and Mom's do not know what a browser and will always click the blue E out of habit because of familiarity even if Chrome is installed
http://saveie6.com/
...except Safari, and mobile browsers in general. Also, expect XP support to disappear from Chrome shortly.
On the other hand, Microsoft has made it a point to discourage users from installing OS upgrades, by charging lots of money for them and changing core functionality in undesirable ways.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
So that the clueless people still using it don't have to buy a new computer when the Internet disappears.
No good reason for Grandma to use Chrome anyway, or anyone else for that matter.
Edge?
Would that be named after the mobile broadband technology, the guitarist from U2 or Samsung's flagship smartphone? Why don't they give it a meaningful name that somehow relates to its function, like, er, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Mozilla, SeaMonkey... Oh, right. Failing that, why not the old, reliable pseudo Latin/Greek names: Webia, Browsium, internet startup names (MeWeb, WebBox, WeBrowse...) or even retro Unix names ('yawb', 'enie')?
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
Actually I was thinking Edge will still decline due to the icon.
Yes Mom and Grandma will still click on it out of habit, but the millenial generation won't even give it a chance. They will see the E and think of IE 7 at work and go eww and click on Chrome instead etc.
http://saveie6.com/
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
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XP only supported IE6 through IE8. That's kind of weak considering that it was supported by Microsoft for over a decade.
I wonder if the trade mark that Ubuntu presumably has could come into legal dispute? https://www.indiegogo.com/proj...
This is what I, and some other people I know first thought about the new name. It is aptly named.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Microsoft has been wallowing in a Ballmer induced miasma since Vista, they have lost their way. And even though 7 didn't suck - how's that for damning with faint praise? - Windows 8 and 8.1 had the shithouse rats complaining about the stench.
But I'm really really hoping that they climb out of the abyss, and return the user experience to XP days, which was one where people came as close to "just doing stuff" as Microsoft ever did.
Waiting hopefully, and if they don't, it's not a huge problem, I've got my Linux and OSX machines - but maybe pappy wants a new toy, a bright shiny Windows lappy.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
But grittier, dark and edgy?
Once you've eaten one shit sandwich and it tasted like ass, you're a bit leery of the same guy who says "buttttt this one's chocolate!"
Google said they're dropping XP support for Chrome this month.
Newsflash: The talented asshole who ran Apple died in 2011.
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I think of the Chrome at work and click on SeaMonkey.
Why would I use anything else when given the choice?
A browser we don't need, want and would like to go away gets renamed and we celebrate like something has changed.
I doubt they completely rewrote it. Their marketing department has a long history of talking about IE standards compliance and IE's technology leadership which is well known. So why does the marketing department get a pass this time around?
I'm not going to call it Edge. It's just going to be newer versions of IE to me. They'd be better calling it "web browser" or "browser" and leave it at that. They don't need to market the thing because it hasn't been a selling point for a long long time; it's so bad they had to rebrand it to turn it back into a selling point when everything has a built-in browser on it today.
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I wonder how thoroughly they will f*ck it up. If it's as bad as active X then the pit of despair has no bottom.
opened IE. Web devs don't count.
For me it's been at least a year.
Considering that Windows 10 will be free for anyone with Windows 7 or Windows 8, legal copy or not, I don't see a problem. Additionally, all current browsers are shit. There isn't a single one that behaves the way I want with the features I want with the performance that I want. Microsoft does make some good products, so I'm looking forward to trying their new browser.
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-support-chrome-on-windows-xp-until-end-of-2015/
Just watched the promo video. It looks f**king awesome!
Away with consumption (according to the video; writing HTML) and towards creating (according to the video; drawing a smiley face)!
The "drawing mustaches on marsupials" feating is the killer feature of a new generation of browsers.
Can your Chrome or Firefix draw mustaches on marsupials? Does it even HAVE mustaches?
Do you want to be a slave to consumption? Making webpages? While you can be the god of your own highlighted-random-text creations?
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So, will (or does) Spartan/Edge 1) support URLs longer than 2083 bytes (believe me, there is use for longer URLs... besides, there is no limit on their length in the http standard) 2) download foo.tgz file as foo.tgz, and not as foo.gz?
Wondering what the biggest problem is with IE? The quirks between different versions of the same browser, the speed? Was it that Microsoft fought the development of open web standards? Or is it just that using IE is slow and sucks? What are the ideological problems with IE, what are the technical problems, in a nutshell? People seem annoyed with the direction of Firefox's development, untrusting of Google's Chrome. What does that leave you? Opera?
or a phailure
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You underestimate the longevity of a desktop computer, if it's not affected by past "plagues" (no-brand memory plague, PSU plague, capacitor plague and some problems with lead-free solder)
I think we're gonna see a huge problem again in 2020 if Windows 7 is EOL'ed then.
do they have some kind of name sharing agreement? explorer's and edge's?
Yes they will. So long as Internet Explorer and Edge are both shipped as part of Windows, you'll get "Why does buttbook look different when I click on this E vs. this E?"
I'm thinking that, just like each succeeding version of MS Windows was based on the same actual code base just with changes, so too will MSE be essentially MSIE under the hood PERHAPS with some cosmetic changes to make people think it's different.
Microsoft Internet Explorer by any other name is still Microsoft Internet Explorer. I suspect that they're trying - desperately trying - to dump the poor reputation their browser has but I really doubt they would want to write the software completely from scratch like Mozilla did when they went from Netscape 4.x to Netscape 6. That was a massive job that took many years before it was good.