Edge will be developed in Chromium to reduce development costs for developers

Originally written by Joe Belfiore

Translator: UC International research and development Jothy

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Editor’s note: On Tuesday, we posted about the possibility of Microsoft embracing Chromium, and today, Microsoft announced on their blog that they have officially decided to adopt the Chromium project for the desktop version of Microsoft Edge. Their decision was based on the following considerations: to provide a better user experience for different Internet users, to reduce development costs for Web developers, and to enable Edge to run across the platform. Read on for some official information on how they achieved these goals.

Over the past few years, Microsoft has actively participated in the open Source Software (OSS) community and has become one of the largest supporters of OSS projects in the world. Today we are announcing our intention to develop Microsoft Edge for the desktop using the Chromium open source project to provide better Web compatibility for our customers and reduce development costs for all Web developers

At the same time, we intend to be a major contributor to Chromium, which is how Microsoft Edge – and other browsers – can be improved on PCS and other devices.

Open source is not new to Microsoft Edge. Our mobile browser has been open source since it was launched over a year ago. We’re also using open source Microsoft Edge features on the desktop (e.g. Angle, Web Audio, Brotli), and we’ve started contributing to the Chromium project to move forward with arm-based browsers for Windows devices.

Our vision is to achieve this in a way that embraces mature open source models: meaningful and positive contributions that are durable, well-designed architecture and collaborative engineering. Together, we find the best solution for people who surf the Internet across devices.

Ultimately, we want to provide a better online experience for a wider variety of users. Users using Microsoft Edge (and other browsers) will experience unprecedented harmony while getting the best battery life and hardware integration on a variety of Windows devices. Web developers will have a more unified Web platform to test their sites to ensure fewer problems and higher user satisfaction; We will also continue to offer Microsoft Edge service-driven compatibility with older Internet Explorer sites, and IT companies will enjoy better compatibility with old and new Web applications in the native Browser of Windows.

Over the next year or so, we’ll be moving forward with Microsoft Edge technology in an open source fashion, if you’re interested. The key directions of this change are:

1. We will migrate the PC version of Microsoft Edge to the Chromium-compatible Web platform. Our goal is to align the Microsoft Edge Web platform with both (a) Web standards and (b) other Chromium-based browsers. This will provide better compatibility for each user and create a simpler test matrix for Web developers.

2. Microsoft Edge will now be delivered and updated at a more frequent pace for all available Windows versions. We expect this to help us bring Microsoft Edge to other platforms, such as macOS. To improve the Web platform experience for end users and developers, Web platforms and browsers must always support as many devices as possible. To achieve this goal, we will evolve the browser code more broadly so that we can deliver the latest Microsoft Edge experience and Web platform across all versions of Windows, while maintaining the benefits of tight browser integration with Windows.

3. We will enhance the Web platform to make chromium-based browsers a better experience on Windows devices. Our philosophy of actively participating in Chromium open Source will include contributions from useful new technologies, consistent with the above. We recognize that making the Windows web experience even better is good for our customers, partners and our business — and we intend to make a positive contribution to that end.

If you are a Microsoft Edge customer, you do not need to do anything because Microsoft Edge is not changing now. If you are a Web developer, we invite you to join our community so that when we release a preview, you can install and update to keep up with our tests and contributions. We expect to have a preview version ready for you to try in early 2019.

If you are part of the browser open source community, we invite you to work with us to build the future of Microsoft Edge and contribute to the Chromium project. We will continue to work on ARM64 support, Web accessibility and bringing touch support to hardware devices.

We look forward to sharing more details as we test and learn in the future, and are excited to be a more active member of the open source community, leading the best of Microsoft forward and continuing to make the web experience better for everyone.

Thanks,

Joe

US Time: 2018-12-06 10:40 AM

英文原文 :

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-col laboration/

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