Ignite Microsoft Edge Iosvenkateshneowin: Microsoft is working to move Edge to a common codebase for the desktop, Android, and iOS versions later this year.
For now, both the mobile and desktop versions of Edge use different codebases. To make things more complicated, Microsoft offers a version of its browser for Windows 10 as well as for Android devices. According to Gizmodo’s article, it sounds like that’s going away soon too.
“Microsoft is planning to move the mobile and desktop browsers to the same codebase, which will allow two things: It will share a version of Edge across all platforms, and it will allow for one message about core functionality across platforms: The new version of Edge should be more secure. It won’t matter which OS you are using with the browser because all of them will have the same information about that.”
The company has been working on this project for over a year now. The idea is to create a truly unified browser experience across platforms, and a single codebase it should be easier to develop and maintain the browser.
When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer back in 1995, they were trying to come up with a new browser that would become an industry standard. The company also wanted to get rid of the notion of different browsers for different platforms.
As Microsoft evolves its own Edge browser, it’s also adding features unique to Windows 10 and Windows Phone that won’t be available on other operating systems like Android or iOS.
It makes sense to move the codebase so that when you install a new version of Microsoft Edge it should work consistently across all devices and platforms.
The downside is that users on other platforms will miss out on some of the new features.
Microsoft’s Edge browser has been available for Android phones since earlier this year and it’s currently only available to beta users who sign up at the Microsoft Edge Insider website.
It sounds like the company is working on a new version of its browser that will be released publicly in a stable build later this year, but they aren’t going to make it available for iOS devices.
This new version of Edge is code-named “Helge.” Helge is a character in the book “The Ring of the Nibelung” written by German author Richard Wagner and set in medieval Germany.
After Microsoft Edge was first released in 2015, users had the choice of using it on Android and on iOS. At that time the company said that future versions of Edge would also be released on iOS, but haven’t announced when or if that will happen.
“We’ve been working on adding support for iOS in Microsoft Edge and are continuing to do so,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Thurrott.com in response to a query about the company’s plans for Edge on iOS. “More broadly, we have no comment on our roadmaps.”
Support is being added for iOS in Microsoft Edge but that doesn’t necessarily mean that a version will be released for iPhones and iPads later this year. At least not yet.
“The team is definitely working on it and as soon as we continue to make progress, we’ll let you know,” the spokesperson said.
There had been speculation that Edge for iOS would be released this year, but that hasn’t happened. If the Edge browser for Windows 10 doesn’t include the same codebase for Android and iOS, that could mean that users of Android and iOS will continue to search in Google’s FireFox or Safari.
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