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UI
- Consistency on UI. Add Fluent design effects like shadows and highlight effects.
- Add History, Download, Favorites button on the top bar like in "old" EDGE.
- Add History, Download, Favorites on one place. One page with 3 tab maybe?
- Add a option to display the Open/Save as when download like "old" EDGE.
- Preview page when hovering it in app bar.
- The Account tab when press on the bar button is too small (on my device, Surface GO), the text is very small and almost not readble.
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The thing that really struck me when first using the Edge Insider was how washed out all web pages look. For example, the MSN home page looks awful compared to to that rendered in Edge for Windows 10.
Is this how it's supposed to look and Edge for Windows 10 simply exagerates the colours to make it look good? Or does Edge Insider have an issue with rendering things correctly?
For me, this simple issue is ruining the experience.
- Jason_Smith can you post some screenshot comparisons? I haven't noticed any tonal difference. In fact what I notice is that fonts are aliased better, giving most pages a cleaner look. However I do not use MSN at all. It could be that MSN is designed specifically for UWP Edge. Perhaps it is best to look at some pages that obey W3C web standards ( https://validator.w3.org/dev/tests ) and are not optimized for any particular engine.
Damix Totally agree.
Damix ha escrito:- Consistency on UI. Add Fluent design effects like shadows and highlight effects.
- Add History, Download, Favorites button on the top bar like in "old" EDGE.
- Add History, Download, Favorites on one place. One page with 3 tab maybe?
- Add a option to display the Open/Save as when download like "old" EDGE.
- Preview page when hovering it in app bar.
- The Account tab when press on the bar button is too small (on my device, Surface GO), the text is very small and almost not readble.
Main reason i use Edge is because fluent desing,
I hate this chrome design
Bring back Fluent Design to fullest!
This is all great feedback. Thank you everyone. I am ensuring that the right people are seeing this thread. Keep in mind, we are not done making changes to the user experience, so check back often and let us know if we are getting better or not as we go.
Thanks,
Elliot
Elliot Kirk This is the beginning of some really great work. People will always hate on aesthetics - can't please everyone. For my part, I like it. I don't spend my browsing time staring at the menus, but interacting with the content on the page. But, I do like the subtle rounded edges more. Also consider that people are more likely to complain than to affirm; my sense - as a service provider myself - is that there has to be a certain amount of dilution applied for vague complaints ("it's new I don't like it").
Specifics: one thing that was problematic with UWP Edge was the font rendering. Font rendering across UWP has been really bad across all the apps, even on quite high DPI monitors. It is nice to interact with fonts properly rendered, as they are in the preview build. Very good work.
My hope is that this will spur Microsoft to get back into the consumer service game, reimagining Maps and Groove for the Android/iOS platforms in order to present the user with a viable alternative ecosystem to the Google hydra.
I like the new aesthetics as well...👍
Is there any kind of development map or plan that we can see? Some way of knowing if, say, the UI development is done, etc. It's no use loads of people talking about the lack of fluent UI if it's never going to happen, etc. Or even timescales for new edge as an insider build and planned full release?
- We don't have a timetable yet. We do, however, have a lot of work going on. We are also trying to understand which areas are the best investments for our customers. We really want to make sure that we build the features that you all want, and we build them well. Please keep sending us your feedback and suggestions as that is our best guide.
Thanks,
Elliot
Speaking about consistency, I really dislike how the new Edge looks - it is like a Frankensteinian monster put together from Chrome and Windows 10. While the icons have been adapted to the Windows 10 look and feel, most controls have not (or only partially). Most importantly, nothing should be round, neither the tabs nor the address bar (which looks weirdly too large as well) nor the context menus.
- I kind of like the new look of Edge, but I could also see how you don't like it. I really liked the "old" Edge without the rounding too, but I also kind of like the Frankensteinian monster mash-up. I think that there should be options for round edges or not, and how much rounding to apply.
muellech wrote:Speaking about consistency, I really dislike how the new Edge looks - it is like a Frankensteinian monster put together from Chrome and Windows 10. While the icons have been adapted to the Windows 10 look and feel, most controls have not (or only partially). Most importantly, nothing should be round, neither the tabs nor the address bar (which looks weirdly too large as well) nor the context menus.
Hear! Hear! on the controls being round. Chrome still looks like it should be on XP and now newEdge does too. And I don't want to be reminded that this newEdge is Chromium based. To me it's bad enough that Microsoft gave in, but please don't make me look at "Chrome" all the time. I hate Chrome (use oldEdge almost exclusively at home and Firefox at work).
muellech wrote:
... the address bar ... looks weirdly too large ...
Try the experimental options (edge://flags). One or two of them allow you to change the size of the omnibox and its text, e.g. edge://flags/#omnibox-ui-desired-font-size
- This has good notes but maybe we can link all the different same comments toghether. 1 Vote for this though+
- I agree, really would like to see Downloads, History, Bookmarks all in the same popout window just like in Edge. I really like/perfer the old UI rather than the chrome copy. Also, make it so New Tabs open with your "Homepage" if set. Currently i have my homepage set to bing.com and opening a new tab does not open with bing.com, even though i set new tabs to open with a specific url.
