I do think it’s always going to require Edge though, I don’t see how Microsoft could resist getting tons of developers to install Edge for these features. I’m probably going to today. So a real VS Code strategy starts to emerge...
Sounds more like premature drama/conspiracy theory atm...
If so, it would be extremely unhelpful for development and debugging since you would rarely have the latest engine on your machine, which would be the engine the majority of your customers would be on.
Using an external browser makes a lot of sense in that regards, and also, it separates the testing engine from the application itself, which allows for (although I doubt it's been implemented yet) testing in different browsers, or different versions of browsers, etc.
> If so, it would be extremely unhelpful for development and debugging since you would rarely have the latest engine on your machine, which would be the engine the majority of your customers would be on.
I would think that it would make sense to A) test in a slower browser anyways -- if your code runs well in a slow environment it'll run in a fast one as well, and B) Test in multiple browser engines anyways. Why would you only test one engine?