Edge in name only Android and i. OS Edge web browser. So far as I know, no ones clamoring for Microsoft Edge on Android smartphones and Apple i. Phones. Indeed, according to the federal governments Digital Analytics Program DAPs most recent data, only 3. Edge. But, Microsoft is determined to make Windows 1. PCs work great with your phone as part of its Continue on PC program, and has brought new Edge apps to i. OS and Android. Of course, the real way for Microsoft to get Windows 1. PCs to work great with smartphones would be if there were Windows based smartphones. Well, we all know what happened to Windows smartphones. Microsofts repeated attempts to create smartphones ended in failure. Now, Microsoft is claiming that smartphones are dead, its just that people just havent realized it yet. Theyll be replaced by Hololens and augmentedvirtual reality devices. Im not holding my breath. Be that as it may, Microsoft hopes the look and feel of Edge transferred to a smartphone interface will make Windows 1. It wont help Windows 1. For, you see, the look and feel is about all thats being transferred. Under the surface of the new Edge i. Phone lies the open source Web. Kit. This is Apples Safari default web engine. If this was a baseball game the count might me 20 for the batter this week as Microsoft surprises consumers on two different levels and products. Earlier. On i. OS, Microsoft had no choice but to use Web. Kit. Apple insists all i. Phone web browsers are built on top of it. The Android Edge app, meanwhile. Googles open source Chromium Blink engine. Microsoft isnt trying to port its Microsoft Edge. HTML rendering engine to either platform. Web. Kit is an open source web browser engine. Like all web browser engines, it renders content, HTML and image files, and web page formatting information such as CSS and XSL. Web. Kit began life as an Apple fork of KDEs open source KHTML and KDE Java. Script KJS engines in 2. The project went open source in 2. Today, only Safari, and browsers based on Safari such as Edge for i. Learn about the new Phone Companion app. Builtin to Windows 10, Phone Companion will help you connect your Windows PC to whatever phone you own whether. Phone, use it. On the Android side, Blink is a Web. Kit fork. Google uses Blink as the engine both for Chrome and its pure open source Chromium web browser. Blink is also used by Opera and Amazon Silk browser. Blink was designed to be faster, more secure, and easier to program than Web.
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