Tag: edge
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![Edge Canary showing an "Always allow [this website] to open links of this type..." checkbox](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2020/03/teamswithcb.png#16834)
Bypassing AppProtocol Prompts
The MS Edge team are working on a security feature relating to websites launching applications, and it's a great move.
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Edge Blink and Progressive Web Apps
Dan investigates the pioneering Progressive Web App features of Edge Dev.
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Chromedge and headcount
So Microsoft is going to retire EdgeHTML and use Chromium instead for Edge while not really answering the question if the web [is] better off with less engine diversity. This upset people, and Mozilla, especially, is worrying about the future:
Will Microsoft’s decision make it harder for Firefox to prosper? It could. Making … -
Browser diversity starts with us
Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman.com) ...
Even if you love Chrome, adore Gmail, and live in Google Docs or Analytics, no single company, let alone a user-tracking advertising giant, should control the internet.
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Diversity is as good for the web as it is for society. And it starts with us.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Yet more fallout from the Microsoft … -
Edge may be becoming Chromium-powered, and that's terrible
It's rumoured that Edge might switch to Chrome's rendering engine. This would be really, really bad for the web, and it takes a 90s/00s web developer to remind you why.
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How Edge Follows In IE's Security Failings
Replicating an experiment Steve Gibson performed into browser EV certificate acceptance, Dan discovers that an ugly security-weakening "feature" of Internet Explorer also appears in Edge. What the hell, Microsoft?