A Microsoft Edge Review from a Developer's Perspective
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What is the need / interest in rolling their own engine for Edge (Trident)?
Why not use Webkit? Is there any financial gain from using Trident over Webkit? Is there anything stopping Microsoft from contributing code to Webkit?
I would think - the team working on Edge / Trident is pretty significant, both in numbers of programmers and pay. If they used something pre-made (such as Webkit) they could focus on adding in extensions or addons. The differences between Safari and Chrome as a web browser are night and day; Edge could be differentiated in any number of ways to try to sway people to use it over Chrome / Safari / Firefox.
I just can't understand that why in 2015, this "browser race" still exists. It benefits no one and makes developer lives so much more complicated.
Any number of companies have dropped huge chunks of existing code base, Apple and Google included.
The IE team could work on Webkit just the same as they work on Trident.
And don't get me wrong - IE has been better since 10 - cross browser testing has gotten easier in recent years, but it still needs to happen where if something works / looks good in Chrome, Safari just generally needs a quick pass to make sure it's the same with very minor tweaks here and there.