June 24, 2015 – SFHTML5

Microsoft Edge for the Web of Today and Tomorrow

@JacobRossiSenior Program ManagerMicrosoft Edge platform team

Browser wars

Technology wars

Massive multiplayer wars

We’re distracted.

What makes us love the web?

The web has unique strengths

Playing to the web’s unique strengths

Linkability

Searchability

Ephemerality

Interoperability

Openness

An interconnected andindexed set of

33 trillion pages that runcross-platform and are

publicly viewable.

Write on the page and share it

Search faster with Cortana

Save it for later in your Reading List

Run the x-browser code with EdgeHTML

Plan for the future via our open roadmap

Linkability

Searchability

Ephemerality

Interoperability

Openness

Write on the page and share it

Search faster with Cortana

Save it for later in your Reading List

Run the x-browser code with EdgeHTML

Plan for the future via our open roadmap

Linkability

Searchability

Ephemerality

Interoperability

Openness

A fork from the past

The engine split

Interoperability: a new approach

“The web should just work for everyone – users, developers, and businesses.”

If standard defines an API behavior but all other browsers behave differently, is it a standard?

Interoperability means the web “just works” if ($.client.profile().name === 'msie') {

var IHateIE = {'scrollTop': context.$textarea.scrollTop(),'pos': context.$textarea.textSelection('getCaretPosition',

{startAndEnd: true})};

context.$textarea.data('IHateIE', IHateIE);}

For some reason IE seems to be calculating that

differently. You might have to put in a special rule for

IE there.

In Chrome, the error does not occur, the xml is appended successfully and the other methods after these two run as expected. In IE however,

a hierarchyRequestError is thrown at the appendChild statement.

no matter HOW I passed the ko object to the child window, something got lost. Horrible

behavior, IE...

Why does the following code throw an 'Unspecified error' (on

the appendChild line) in IE11 which I click the button?

Getting the right, modern content

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.93 Safari/537.36

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0

User-Agent Strings

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.93 Safari/537.36

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0

User-Agent Strings

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.93 Safari/537.36

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0

Mozilla/5.0

The HTML5 Standard even does this!

window.mobileCheck = function() {

var check = false;

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return check; }

Please don’t do UA sniffing

Please don’t do UA sniffingPlease avoid UA sniffing as much as possible

Always do feature detection

(If isolating a bug) Sniff for specific browser versions

Assume unknown browsers are good

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Prioritizing interop

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Used by real sites

Works in other browsers

We anticipate sites will require this functionality soon

Real site usage is farther out or never

Font Resource Handling

Before loading font resources, IE and Firefox check the font server’s CORS header, and the font’s installable header (as per W3C specification).

This is done to ensure that the font usage rights are honored.

WebKit does not check CORS / installable header.

before after

Control Appearance OverridesApple added ways to restyle HTML controls on the iPhone to match OS control look and feel.

Web developers add custom markup to disable Apple’s styles and provide their own.

-webkit-appearance: none ← Most common value.

-webkit-appearance: button

-webkit-appearance: checkbox

-webkit-appearance: radio

etc..

before after

Control Appearance Overrides

Some sites restyle input controls using -webkit-appearance: none for critical functionality.

before after

GradientsApple originally added support for gradients to WebKit using a Core Graphics friendly syntax.

During standardization the syntax was changed leaving WebKit incompatible with the standard. Some sites continue to use the original Apple syntax. Proprietary Apple Markup (still in WebKit):

-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right bottom, colorstop(0, #FFFFFF), color-stop(1, #00A3EF));

Webkit-prefixed W3C Standard Gradient in WebKit:

-webkit-linear-gradient(top left, #FFFFFF 0%, #00A3EF 100%);

Unprefixed W3C standard:

linear-gradient(to bottom right, FFFFFF 0%, #00A3EF 100%);

before after

innerHTML orphaned children

Interop patterns we’re working onBugs where we’re just plain wrong

Standards we’re missing

Unstandardized but interoperable APIs

“defacto” differences from standards

Bugs in other browsers

innerHTML orphaned children

Web audio, preserve-3d, RTC, CSP, responsive images

-webkit-appearance, <meta viewport>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://foo.com" />

body.scrollTop versus documentElement.scrollTop, DOM prototypes

To date, we’ve made

of these types of fixes in Edge.

Removing code (yay!)

VML

attachEvent()

VB Script

Conditional Comments

X-UA-Compatible

currentStyle

currentStyle

IE Layout Quirks

MS-prefixed Events

Rememberingthe IEisms thathave passed

Using data to design a platform

Insiders Program3+ million users

33 trillion pages44 billion sites7 thousand APIs

bing

Web Crawler

Instrumentation

Microsoft Edge

Implementing XPath: crawler data in action

Implementing XPath: crawler data in action

Hypothesis: Most XPath queries can be rewritten in CSS selectors

//element1/element2/element3//element[@attribute="value"].//*[contains(concat(" ", @class, " "), " classname ")]

element1 > element2 > element3element[attribute="value"]*.classname

So we tried it

94%

So we tried it

97%

Using open source JavaScript to complete it

Selectors Engine

Wicked-Good-Xpathcode.google.com/p/wicked-good-xpath

C++

JS

97%

3%

Standards and our roadmap

Specifications

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Under Consideration In DevelopmentPreview Release

Planning in the open

What’s available in Microsoft Edge now

How we think about what’s beyond that

Real World Usage Data

Developer/Partner Feedback

Standards Stability

Development Capacity

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