Category: Microsoft Edge
More Spartan Details Revealed
What happens when you keep delaying the release of Project Spartan? More uncontrolled leaks, of course; and thanks to the most recent one, the (almost) full picture of Microsoft’s upcoming web browser has been revealed. Here’s a recap:
Project Spartan includes two reading features, reading list and a reading mode. The first one allows you to save content for later access (will sync with Windows Phone 10) while reading mode works is what is currently available on IE11 / Windows Phone 8.1, basically it will remove ads and any other irrelevant content when activated.
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Déjà Vu: Next Windows 10 Build To Include Spartan
I swear we wrote this before.
If you’ve been following Project Spartan news then it should be a pretty common knowledge by now that Microsoft promised to include its new web browser in the “next” Windows 10 build (which was released yesterday). Unfortunately, it did not happen.
Now, it looks like the software giant is ready to make the very same promise again and hopefully deliver this time. While there is no ETA for the next build yet, yesterday’s Windows 10 Preview does include some changes in the new rendering engine, which Project Spartan will utilize.
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Today’s Windows 10 Build Does Not Include Spartan
Now here’s a bummer.
Even though Microsoft has promised that the next official Windows 10 build will include new and much anticipated web browser, it appears that the software giant has broken the promise as just announced Windows 10 Preview does not actually include Spartan.
So who’s to blame and why is this the case? Well, the blame goes to both developers and the “announcer” as is turns out, Project Spartan is simply not yet ready.
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Latest Spartan Build Includes Experimental Title Bar
Shows work still in progress.
Now here’s a small piece of info for you. Assuming you’ve been looking at the latest leaked screenshots, there was a setting to enable experimental title bar, which does away with the unnecessary space at the top.
Therefore, we strongly believe that the final version of Spartan will look like the image below (aka much better):
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More Spartan Screenshots Leak
Show what’s in store.
Following the recently released video, here comes a bunch of Spartan screenshots, revealing new features and continuous work on the user interface.
So what exactly was shown? Take a look:
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Video: Spartan On Windows 10! Coming This Month
Now this is cool.
Despite not being available for public yet, it looks like we (finally) got a video of Spartan running on Windows 10 Preview and it does look promising.
If you don’t feel like watching a video, it covers Cortana integration and this is what It can do:
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Video: Internet Explorer, A Break From The Past
In a newly published post, the IE Team has revealed the steps they took to modernize its rendering engine (aka split it from the original Trident).
That‘s why Spartan is said to be more compatible than IE has ever been, especially due to a new web approach. Instead of analyzing the top 9000 sites that are responsible for around 88% of all web traffic (like Microsoft did in the past), they actually got to the root cause of compatibility issues and looked for patterns of trillions of urls instead.
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Spartan To Remove The 300ms Delay, Pointer Events Become W3C Recommendation
Recently, Microsoft has announced a couple new things, first of all, their Pointer Events model has now been accepted by W3C and became a recommended standard, which means that other browser vendors should be implementing it in the near future, hopefully.
In addition to that, there have been changes in the new rendering engine that is set to power Spartan. Due to the double tap issue (where a browser must pause for 300ms to see if there will be another one (assuming users want to zoom)), there comes a delay. While there are many workarounds (even for IE10), they are not ideal.
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Awesome: Microsoft To Implement Mozilla’s ASM.JS
Shows that they do listen to the community.
If you visit Microsoft’s User Voice web site, on the very first page you will find a request to implement Mozilla’s asm.js, which is a strict subset of the JavaScript language that brings significant performance improvements. As a result, you can run heavy stuff like Unreal Engine 3 right in your web browser.
Now, it looks like the next version of Microsoft’s JavaScript engine (Chakra) on Windows 10 will also support asm.js.
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Benchmarks: Internet Explorer 11 vs. Spartan vs. Google Chrome 40 vs. Firefox 35
If you haven’t experienced or tested the Spartan yet (and by that we mean IE’s new rendering engine) then here’s something that I am sure a lot are curious about: a set of tests that compare Spartan versus other web browsers, including IE.
Thanks to guys at AnandTech, that’s exactly what they did with Windows 10 build 9926 running on Core i7-860.
Here are the results:
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