Ok... I know this is a really old thread, but as I am very much a novice in auto detailing, I am experienced in most things tech, especially browsers/security/programming (day job). So I can give some info here that at the end of the day isn't going to change your life one bit.
First...let me say I am no fan of IE or Edge for that matter.
To Mike's post about IE not being supported. It is, in fact, supported by Microsoft. The most recent version, IE 11, will be supported until the end of life of Windows 10. IE will not be receiving new features but will receive security updates until that time. That being said, IE has always lacked in security. Not in any way that most people will ever fall victim to, the security features such as SSL, HTTPS and many others that keep your web browsing safe from prying eyes all work just fine.
As far as the browser not keeping up with the changing technologies, there is actually a reason for this. In the general public almost every major browser has a huge lead over IE as far as how many people actually use it. BUT, in an enterprise environment, large businesses, banks, etc, IE is king. Many web applications that businesses use were designed for IE simply because it was easier to use a browser already installed with the operating system than install a third party alternative. Made the lives of the admin's easier. So now move forwards a few years, the internet is growing faster than anyone anticipated, other browsers are being adopted by average users, web technologies are growing and changing at a rapid pace.
Microsoft, knowing that IE is used by many businesses, can't keep up with the rapid changes because each change can potentially break applications these businesses depend on. So change happens slower. Fast forward again to today (or last year when this poll was first posted). Edge is out, why do we have IE? Edge was Microsofts answer to supporting all of these rapid changes. Faster, app based (IE has always been integrated into Windows), and can change faster to meet the new web technologies. By admission of one of Microsofts own engineers, IE is still included and supported solely for backwards compatibility for businesses that are facing massive overhauls of their web applications for them to run on newer browsers.
Pretty dry stuff, but it sheds some light on why IE is what it is.
Few other little 'fun facts'. Opera, Chrome, the soon to be released new version of Edge, and many other browsers all use 'chromium' as the base for their browser. Chromium is a simple web browser that you can download and run itself that has been used by many other companies to be the base for their own browsers. So the basic rendering of web sites is largely the same for most browsers out there, only difference will be features that are built around the actual browsing, such as Opera's built in ad blocker and VPN, or Chromes heavy google account integration.
Chromium is built upon 'Blink', which is a rendering engine used to ... you guessed it, render the web pages themselves.
Safari, and because of terms created by Apple, every browser that runs on macOS or iOS, are all built using the WebKit rendering engine. Chrome on a Mac? Uses WebKit, same as Safari.
I mentioned Blink above. Blink is a rendering engine that actually started out as a branch, or fork, off of WebKit itself. Since then it has taken a different path and is usually much quicker to support new features and technologies.
The only browser that is actually separate from all of the others and 'does it's own thing', is Firefox. Firefox was a spin off of Netscape Navigator, one of the earliest challengers to IE.
See, told you none of that would change your life at all,
.
First...let me say I am no fan of IE or Edge for that matter.
To Mike's post about IE not being supported. It is, in fact, supported by Microsoft. The most recent version, IE 11, will be supported until the end of life of Windows 10. IE will not be receiving new features but will receive security updates until that time. That being said, IE has always lacked in security. Not in any way that most people will ever fall victim to, the security features such as SSL, HTTPS and many others that keep your web browsing safe from prying eyes all work just fine.
As far as the browser not keeping up with the changing technologies, there is actually a reason for this. In the general public almost every major browser has a huge lead over IE as far as how many people actually use it. BUT, in an enterprise environment, large businesses, banks, etc, IE is king. Many web applications that businesses use were designed for IE simply because it was easier to use a browser already installed with the operating system than install a third party alternative. Made the lives of the admin's easier. So now move forwards a few years, the internet is growing faster than anyone anticipated, other browsers are being adopted by average users, web technologies are growing and changing at a rapid pace.
Microsoft, knowing that IE is used by many businesses, can't keep up with the rapid changes because each change can potentially break applications these businesses depend on. So change happens slower. Fast forward again to today (or last year when this poll was first posted). Edge is out, why do we have IE? Edge was Microsofts answer to supporting all of these rapid changes. Faster, app based (IE has always been integrated into Windows), and can change faster to meet the new web technologies. By admission of one of Microsofts own engineers, IE is still included and supported solely for backwards compatibility for businesses that are facing massive overhauls of their web applications for them to run on newer browsers.
Pretty dry stuff, but it sheds some light on why IE is what it is.
Few other little 'fun facts'. Opera, Chrome, the soon to be released new version of Edge, and many other browsers all use 'chromium' as the base for their browser. Chromium is a simple web browser that you can download and run itself that has been used by many other companies to be the base for their own browsers. So the basic rendering of web sites is largely the same for most browsers out there, only difference will be features that are built around the actual browsing, such as Opera's built in ad blocker and VPN, or Chromes heavy google account integration.
Chromium is built upon 'Blink', which is a rendering engine used to ... you guessed it, render the web pages themselves.
Safari, and because of terms created by Apple, every browser that runs on macOS or iOS, are all built using the WebKit rendering engine. Chrome on a Mac? Uses WebKit, same as Safari.
I mentioned Blink above. Blink is a rendering engine that actually started out as a branch, or fork, off of WebKit itself. Since then it has taken a different path and is usually much quicker to support new features and technologies.
The only browser that is actually separate from all of the others and 'does it's own thing', is Firefox. Firefox was a spin off of Netscape Navigator, one of the earliest challengers to IE.
See, told you none of that would change your life at all,
.
