Microsoft's Edge on Apple's macOS? It's more likely than you think for new browser Microsoft may be closer to its first Mac browser in 14 years. "We also expect this work to enable us to bring Microsoft Edge to other platforms like macOS," Joe Belfiore said last December, when he announced the move to a Chromium-based engine for the Edge browser. "Improving the web-platform experience for both end users and …
Because it would allow them to offload the kernel development cost to someone else, just as they are with Edge. MS has its head up... er, in the cloud these days, and it doesn't really matter how one gets to the cloud. Not that I'm saying they will do this, but if they were going to, it would be right in line with what they've done with Edge.
Windows has a modern hybrid microkernel architecture. There pretty much are no kernel development costs as everything is modular and almost all of Windows is outside of the kernel.
It makes far more sense to run other OSs under such a kernel than under a monolithic kernel.
What train wreck Safari on Windows was
Much like every other Mac-centric code that Apple has produced. Like iTunes - barely tolerable on a Mac, utterly unusable on Windows. Likewise various utilities (Bonjour browser et. al).
It's almost like the Apple devs don't really know much about writing code for Windows.
Well Edge has nowhere near the market share it would need for developers to start targeting it.
Edge on Android which is just a version that runs on top of a Chrome engine has been available for quite a while yet the play store shows it only has 5 million+ installs, compared to Firefox that has 100 million or Chrome which has over 1 billion installs.
Another thing is that MS need to win around a lot of bad press it received with the POS that was IE, lot of people still perceive that Edge is just as bad and will be reluctant to trust MS with anything browser related every again.
People can't design edge-only sites without having a lot of problems. They could do that with IE because IE had its own rendering engine that could be changed to produce different functionality than other browsers and the spec. Microsoft just took someone else's rendering engine. It can't really do that anymore. A site that works on edge will also work on any chromium browser, and because firefox/gecko supports most of the frameworks chromium does, it'll work well in that too. Of course, a bad designer can break this, but it's a lot easier to do a chrome-only site than it is to do an edge-only one.
Honestly ? Edge or $nameYourFavouriteBrowser, incomptent good for nothing designers (and their associated code monkeys who write the code) who still think that in 2019 that a browser restricted website is an acceptable idea are the sort of people who deserve to be incarcerated for life without parole.
I'd finally managed to forget about Internet explorer for mac (I.e. 5.5 if memory serves was the version I used). One of the worst browsers I've have ever had to use, fit only for masochists. I'd have chosen to use a WAP browser on an old Nokia over that misguided attempt at surfing the net.
Bleh, now I need to find the booze cupboard so I can forget the sordid mess again.
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