Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

4 of 74 comments (clear)

  1. Er.. by krkhan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work at Microsoft and generally feel glad about open-source advancements made around the company but this hardly warrants a "open-source browser" headline. Welcome to 2005.

  2. A browser written in HTML, JS and CSS? by TeknoHog · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well I just wrote this shell using nothing but Bash, so nyah nyah nyah!

    --
    Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
  3. GitHub link to WebView component code please? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    This "Open-Source" browser makes use of the WebView component:
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn301831.aspx

    Where is the open source code for this component, please?

  4. Re:Still uses WebView by Penguinisto · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You could write a web browser in any language and claim it is open source, even if you call out to external proprietary libraries to do all of the grunt-work.

    FTFY, but only to properly frame the BS that Microsoft is trying to perpetrate. You see, EdgeHTML is quite proprietary.

    --
    Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?