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Comment by saagarjha | Hacker News Reader

> Support for Mac and all supported versions of Windows will also come over time.

Is anyone actually planning to use Edge on macOS? What reasons would you have for doing so?

This reminds me of the 5 year period from 2007 to 2012 when Apple made Safari for Windows. I got curious and used it for a few weeks, but moved back to Firefox for the extensions.

Related: are there still any WebKit browsers for Windows?

Chrome and Opera are technically blink but are essentially Webkit AFAIK (Google forked webkit and Opera followed). At least I haven't heard of any huge disparities between them.

There's a fair bit in way of difference now, and it's definitely long since passed a point where plenty of fixes couldn't be copied between them.

Making browser cross-platform gives a bigger user base and instills confidence in developers to take a browser into consideration when designing websites, which in turn popularizes the browser as sites work properly.

I would use it for browser testing websites if it's renders identically to the Windows version.

Seems unlikely to ever render identically. At the very least I believe chrome uses the platform specific font shapers (coretext on mac, cleartype on win).

So in the end, a mac version of edgeium just adds yet another browser to the test matrix columns....

Its Chrome but not Google? Sort of the same usecase as Brave?

…but it’s Microsoft. Is that any better?

Brave was made originally on Electron fork Muon which was recently abandoned in favor of Chromium.

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