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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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    1. 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.

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  2. I heard you like browsers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.