I am quite a fan of the minimalist design although the locations, of settings, history etc can feel a little odd to someone who is used to having a ‘file bar’ enabled on Firefox. My first impressions? The browser feels far faster than Internet Explorer 11 and things seem to be quick and responsive to load pages. There is also integration with Cortana.Įdge is a different beast compared to Internet explorer as it uses a new layout engine also known as EdgeHTML, which is basically a fork from Trident (a proprietary layout engine of Internet Explorer) which was designed to cope better with the modern web and with no support for legacy technologies such as ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects. It comes with some new features like WebNote for native page annotation and sharing capabilities, reading view functionality and support for reading list. So what is Microsoft Edge?įor those who don’t know Microsoft Edge was previously codenamed “Project Spartan” (a nod of the head to the Halo game series) and is the new default browser that comes with Windows 10. However this week there was a new browser in town, a successor to Internet Explorer so I thought seeing as I just updated my work machine to Windows 10 it would be worth taking it for a spin and seeing how good it was for Web Developers.

My normal default browser for doing web development work on the website is Firefox with the Firebug, Colorzilla plugins running. Microsoft Edge – Is it Good enough for Web Developers?Īt IDR Solutions I spend a lot of time working on our website and making improvements to our product pages for our Java PDF Library and PDF to HTML5 Converter in terms of SEO and improving useability especially for mobile and tablet users. He also likes retro technology, classic cars and in his spare time enjoys travelling. Alex Marshall Alex Marshall is a marketeer, web developer and designer.

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