We recently posted “
A break from the past: the birth of Microsoft’s new web rendering engine”, an in-depth look at the background and motivation behind building a new rendering engine to power Microsoft Edge. A key factor described was the ability to make a break from legacy Internet Explorer-specific technologies that had been built up over the years.
In this post, we are sharing a list of legacy IE technologies and features that are not part of Microsoft Edge. Not supporting these legacy technologies in Microsoft Edge has a number of benefits: better interoperability with other modern browsers, improved performance, security & reliability, and reduced code complexity, just to name a few. And just like all good developers, ours
love to delete code – over 220,000 lines of code in MSHTML have been removed from Microsoft EdgeHTML!
