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Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

Posted by Soulskill on from the opposite-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft's new browser, Edge, has a new rendering engine, EdgeHTML. Like Edge, the new rendering engine is only available in Windows 10, but it does more than just power the company's new browser: It's also readily available to developers. To show off what EdgeHTML can do, Microsoft has built a browser using predominantly JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Next, the company released the browser on the Windows Store and the sample code on GitHub.

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  1. Still uses WebView by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You could write a web browser in any language as long as you could call out to external libraries.

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  2. Duh by jones_supa · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's just a WebView component embedded inside a web page.

  3. Re:More spyware and ads? by thoromyr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah... it isn't a browser, its a skin for the HTML/CSS renderer and JS engine. I'm not sure what they are trying to prove: Mozilla's gecko hasn't exactly taken the application world by storm... and *it* is actually crossplatform.