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Microsoft Edge Roadmap
EFFICIENT AND DIVERSE MEDIA PLAYBACK FOCUS IS MISSING ON THE ROADMAP
What struck me in the above list is seemingly absent mentioning of advantages given by better browser integration with OS. For example, Edge is well known for its more efficient video playback, which is critical for YouTube lovers with older laptops and devices. I think emphasizing this advantage more, Edge will be able to attracts a very large share of consumers. But instead https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1120706947668426753 PNACL sandbox support in Edge, thus making impossible to install and run popular media extensions, and even Google Earth. Sounds crazy - what do you think guys?
Delivering video content efficiently, so high resolution and bitrate videos can be downloaded faster and played on weaker older hardware - requires a kind of dark art advanced skills and knowledge. Videos comprise now 70% of all crossing internet bits, and will approach 80% in 2 years as per Cisco research. Microsoft was striving for the last few years to deliver https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/07/13/get-better-quality-video-with-microsoft-edge/#Kdcsbg1KWl21MxKF.97 with Edge Classic compare to any other browser. In fact, Edge team got Technical https://twitter.com/jatindermann/status/1118247072690388992 for that outstanding effort. New reports surfaced of Edge Chromium geared for https://mspoweruser.com/chromium-based-microsoft-edge-will-be-able-to-stream-videos-in-4k/.
Now its time to extend this support to a new contender for defacto internet video standard https://research.mozilla.org/av1-media-codecs/ codec. I wonder if someone from Edge Media team can share some plans and challenges in bringing superb Edge Classic's video playback level to Edge Chromium? For example, would be interesting to see Edge Chromium supporting HD video torrents search and direct torrent stream playback, possibly through a professionally made by the Edge team open source extension.
After Edge Chromium announcement, there were numerous questions from Insider release testers, what familiar features will be implemented first, and what directions MS Edge team will concentrate on. In reply, MS Edge team management published an interesting article
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/04/08/microsoft-edge-preview-channel-details/
Its an interesting read, clearly outlining a range of technologies, features, and directions the Edge Insider team is focused now.
Replacing Google Services with Microsoft's own is not the only change they plan for Edge Chromium. The team is actively looking for new ways to position the browser as an advanced productivity tool for both corporate and consumer warriors, technology novices and geeks .
The first line of new directions and features planned for initial Edge Chromium release was presented during Build 2019 event and outlined in the article:
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/05/06/edge-chromium-build-2019-pwa-ie-mode-devtools/#fdF6LkLprOCwX171.97
It emphasizes a) productivity, b) privacy, c) developer, and d) enterprise support as today's strategic directions.
Let's look at what's in store for Edge enterprise users, who as expected demand compatibility with venerable Internet Explorer and other 30-year old Microsoft products still in use on their LANs. For enterprise the Edge team prepared a gifty IE ActiveX that will seamlessly auto fit right into the Edge open tab when facing a webpage designed for Internet Explorer. One would be surprised to learn, the websites designed for ALL previous IE generations are still supported.
To learn more about IE integration into Edge, watch this video. Its an interesting journey into early tech, most current Edge developers hardly heard of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dm29djv3U
sambul95 "MS Edge team management published an interesting article "What to expect in the new Microsoft Edge Insider Channels". Its an interesting read, clearly outlining a range of technologies, features, and directions the Edge Insider team is focused now."
While the Insider's guide you point to is interesting and informative (at the 50,000 foot level), the need for speculation about features/functions under development or being considered for development could be eliminated, in large part, if the Edge team would make a high level development road map available to Edge Insiders. What percentage of the posts on this forum asking about this/that feature/function ("Is x planned?" "What is the status of x?") would be answered by a such a road map? 50%? 75%?
The link you posted above just points to the thread you started that gives no info whatsoever about the subject. Are you trying to swing user attention to some empty demands and speculations in your topic? Why start several threads about the same subject to begin with? Isn't it a bad idea proven thousand time by forum best practices, and most forum rules? 😉
I don't see any request from you in this thread for a more detailed road map from the developers, so it's not the same subject (but is related, so useful to link).
