<story><title>The birth of Microsoft&apos;s new web rendering engine</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/26/a-break-from-the-past-the-birth-of-microsoft-s-new-web-rendering-engine.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdSharkey</author><text>YES!  1-2-3-4, I declare a browser war!&lt;p&gt;Finally.  This is the Microsoft I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for!  No more rolling over and no defeatist talk of adopting WebKit or whatever.  Microsoft is going to use its muscle and position to make a truly competitive browser.&lt;p&gt;We need more competition, and we need the default browser in Windows to be just as good as Chrome and Firefox.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft, I hope you pull every -ms- vendor flaggin&amp;#x27;, ring-0 kernel hookin&amp;#x27;, micro-optimizatin&amp;#x27;, site-specific D3D driver tweakin&amp;#x27; trick in the book as you reach for parity.  This is going to be so fun to watch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Throwaway90283</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see some competition as well, but in my perspective, they&amp;#x27;re taking the wrong approach.&lt;p&gt;This entire project seems to be about improving compatibility with older websites, by adding more algorithms and layers to the rendering process. I don&amp;#x27;t believe everyone is using Firefox and Chrome because they have better compatibility than IE.&lt;p&gt;I think they should focus on cutting the fat, and making the lightest weight, fastest and standards compliant browser possible, with some popular third-party add-ons available, such as ad block. Or, leave IE11 as the default now for compatibility, and spin off a new browser called IE Lightning.&lt;p&gt;If people start to switch over, then more sites will be developed to work in IE Lightning.&lt;p&gt;In short, create a faster browser with a smaller memory footprint and ad block, get users, watch compatibility fix itself, then make this ship as the default browser in 5 years.</text></comment>
<story><title>The birth of Microsoft&apos;s new web rendering engine</title><url>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/26/a-break-from-the-past-the-birth-of-microsoft-s-new-web-rendering-engine.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EdSharkey</author><text>YES!  1-2-3-4, I declare a browser war!&lt;p&gt;Finally.  This is the Microsoft I&amp;#x27;ve been waiting for!  No more rolling over and no defeatist talk of adopting WebKit or whatever.  Microsoft is going to use its muscle and position to make a truly competitive browser.&lt;p&gt;We need more competition, and we need the default browser in Windows to be just as good as Chrome and Firefox.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft, I hope you pull every -ms- vendor flaggin&amp;#x27;, ring-0 kernel hookin&amp;#x27;, micro-optimizatin&amp;#x27;, site-specific D3D driver tweakin&amp;#x27; trick in the book as you reach for parity.  This is going to be so fun to watch.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>We have a already have lot of competition.   In fact, it&amp;#x27;s never been better: Chrome, Firefox, WebKit, Chromium, Opera.  You can even get the source code for Firefox and Chrome and contribute.  I&amp;#x27;m glad Microsoft is making a better go at it, but honestly, Microsoft could have built a more compliant browser any time they wanted too.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;html5test.com&amp;#x2F;results&amp;#x2F;desktop.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>