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Edge Engineering AMA on Reddit tomorrow 11:30 am - 1 pm PST
Since I heard you guys are collecting questions, I have a few myself.
1. I have seen reports on other websites that IE mode now work with canary/dev, but that it only works with those on 20H1 insiders build. Is that true? Why? How long until you can use it in any windows 10 build?
2. When will an update to the UI be released? As many people have pointed out, it's too chrome like right now. The old layout and other UI elements like the blue inprivate icon have been highly requested.
3. When you start releasing edge chromium for other windows operating systems, will it be all at once for all the other windows like windows 7/windows 8/windows 8.1/ windows server 2008/windows server 2008 R2/windows server 2012/windows embedded/etc or will it be a once a month basis for each release? What will be the next windows release for edge chromium? Will it be windows 7?
4. There has been a very controversial change to chrome with regards to ad blocking limiting filters to 30,000. Will edge chromium keep supporting the old one? Because other chromium based browsers have expressed contempt for it and plan to maintain the old one or even breaking away from chromium. You would look very good keeping the old way that ads are blocked rather than adapting to the new one chrome wants.
He-Man84 Could you please post great Qs to the official Reddit AMA thread so others can see them as well?
It looks like the AMA is over, all team answers are listed https://www.reddit.com/user/MSEdgeDev_Team. Overall not revealing much, but some answers were more informative.
Most attention was driven to the issue whether Edge will continue to allow blocking ads. The answer was not definitive, likely since Google may respond adversely, but it looks like full ads blocking will still be allowed through extensions. I think attention to this subject will subside once the browser starts enforcing "good ad" criteria. The reality is, without web developers fiscal motivation, we may not enjoy in the future rich informative and bright web it is today.
As to other questions never answered on this forum, they were neither addressed at AMA. No Tab Management answers, nothing about media features & codecs except DRM, nada about improving English spellcheck and whole page translation quality, nothing on PNACL & Arc Welder extensions support in Edge for Windows, no word on improving Edge forum moderation tools, or posting Edge Bug & Feature Tracker. I wonder if Edge team would be willing to address these Qs here? 😉
One thing I noted is answer about apps: "developers will soon have the option to run their new web apps on the Chromium engine which will make it easier for app developers that already build and test their sites and apps in Chromium-based browsers."
