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

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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Still uses WebView

[OverlordQ]

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

Re:Still uses WebView

[Penguinisto]

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.

Re:Still uses WebView

[radarskiy]

What's the last language you used without calling out to an external library?

Re:Still uses WebView

[mrbester]

English. I have an extensive library of my own...

Re:Still uses WebView

[Merk42]

You've never said any of these words?
"Gesundheit"
"Voilà"
"Tacos"

Re:Still uses WebView

[davester666]

yeah, how many apps are just a webview and an iAd view, basically monetizing somebody else's content.

I heard you like browsers

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard you like browsers, so I put a browser in your browser so you can browse while you browse

Re:I heard you like browsers

[Dagger2]

Firefox did it first, of course: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Er..

[krkhan]

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.

Re:More spyware and ads?

[erikkemperman]

Oh wait, I just read it again and guess I misunderstood the first time.. This browser written in HTML/CSS/JS is the sample, demonstrating the awesomeness this EdgeHTML engine.

Anyway, I'm not going to be able to check it out due to my Unamerican OS.

Re:More spyware and ads?

[JackieBrown]

I'm a linux / android guy who only uses windows on my work assigned locked down laptop. But my desire to run those OSs stems from their open source nature (although it did start with a frustration of windows - but that was over 10 years ago.)

But I have been reading a lot of stories on slashdot that at least some divisions are becoming open source friendly.

Re:More spyware and ads?

[thoromyr]

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.

Re:More spyware and ads?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

So fork it. It's open source. Or is it? The title suggests it is but TFS mentions "sample code" on GH. Which is it?

Also I thought open source was Unamerican according to MS?

No, it's a "cancer", as per Steve Ballmer (although technically he was referring to the Linux software kernel).

Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a media interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.