I've been using Edge off and on even when it was called Project Spartan and I've been pretty impressed by it, it's blazingly fast and responsive and it's pretty intuitive. Only thing that bothers me is when you open a new tab it brings the would be URL bar down in the middle like it's a search bar instead of just staying up top.
I've been testing out Edge as well. The only thing that's bothering me right now is if I try to save a site to the favorites bar, I can't enter it with no name (so that only the page icon appears) like I can in chrome or firefox. It's a piddly thing that I'm sure they'll fix at some point, and hopefully this new build will have already addressed it.
The update is coming in now on my laptop, which is currently running 10162, which I've found to be fast and stable, but still has some bugs (notably in the search bar and in Cortana). I'm looking forward to seeing how they tweak things.
It's funny you mention the Cortana bugs. I realized the other day Cortana was neglecting to return a result for my query "Paint". I actually chuckled out loud to myself. I'm sure these things are being ironed out as we speak or have already been taken care of but yes, I agree. Windows 10 and the new edge are both largely impressive!
Any idea how well this conforms to standards? I'm coming at this from a web application developer's point of view, should I expect my apps to work in a similar fashion to Chrome and Firefox?
I've been using Edge off and on even when it was called Project Spartan and I've been pretty impressed by it, it's blazingly fast and responsive and it's pretty intuitive. Only thing that bothers me is when you open a new tab it brings the would be URL bar down in the middle like it's a search bar instead of just staying up top.
I've been testing out Edge as well. The only thing that's bothering me right now is if I try to save a site to the favorites bar, I can't enter it with no name (so that only the page icon appears) like I can in chrome or firefox. It's a piddly thing that I'm sure they'll fix at some point, and hopefully this new build will have already addressed it.
The update is coming in now on my laptop, which is currently running 10162, which I've found to be fast and stable, but still has some bugs (notably in the search bar and in Cortana). I'm looking forward to seeing how they tweak things.
...I had no idea you could do that. TIL. Have an upvote! Now I'm off to update my bookmarks for a while.
It's funny you mention the Cortana bugs. I realized the other day Cortana was neglecting to return a result for my query "Paint". I actually chuckled out loud to myself. I'm sure these things are being ironed out as we speak or have already been taken care of but yes, I agree. Windows 10 and the new edge are both largely impressive!
Any idea how well this conforms to standards? I'm coming at this from a web application developer's point of view, should I expect my apps to work in a similar fashion to Chrome and Firefox?
I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure it meets the HTML5 and CSS 3 standards at the very least.
The second that it supports some extensions, it's my main browser. It's so fast and elegant. I just need mah lastpass.
If you haven't tried the latest version in 10240 I highly recommend you give it a drive around the block, very impressive.