No more Internet Explorer...

[Disguised]

....in name only. :-)

http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-confirms-its-killing-internet-explorer-brand-windows-10

http://preview.tinyurl.com/l88lzph

[Stephen Wolstenholme[_6_]]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:20:11 -0400, Disguised
> wrote:

>...in name only. :-)
>

I won't miss it.

Steve

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[VanguardLH[_2_]]

Disguised wrote:

> http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-confirms-its-killing-internet-explorer-brand-windows-10
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/l88lzph

Saleem, the author, is about 1-1/2 months behind on his news but other
articles are now just showing up about this. The author's suppositions
regarding the cause for the name change are unsubstantiated (i.e., it's
his opinion on why IE will become Spartan ... or whatever Microsoft
decides for a new name by the release date for their web browser that
uses a different layout engine).

Microsoft discontinued using the Trident layout engine for IE and went
to another rendering engine called the Spartan layout engine (which is a
fork of Trident) which then got renamed to the EdgeHTML engine. As a
consequence, Microsoft decided to also rename IE to Spartan. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(layout_engine)
(Spartan info added on 12-Feb-2015)

Also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_(browser)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_browser_rendering_engine

According to that wikipedia article, Microsoft made the name change
announcement back on 21-Jan-2015. Also see:

"Here's how to enable the Spartan Edge rendering engine for IE11 in
Windows 10"
http://www.windowscentral.com/enable-spartan-rendering-engine-ie11

I don't think the web browser (client) name changes to Spartan. Instead
it changes from Internet Explorer 11 to Internet Explorer 12. Microsoft
might change the name (from its project name of "Spartan") to something
else or they could just move forward with "Internet Explorer 12".

There are few benchmarks on IE 12 to see if it has improved, like:

http://www.winbuzzer.com/benchmark-deep-dive-microsoft-windows-10-spartan-browser-vs-ie11-vs-google-chrome-41-vs-mozilla-firefox-36/

I can't see the pictures of the benchmarks but I can see the summary
table at the end. The article admits that IE12 still doesn't support
some HTML5 features but personally I feel it is over reaching of the
other web browser to claim support for HTML5 when much of it has not yet
ratified and that's not expected until 2018 although some say maybe not
until 2022.

There are some other IE12 benchmarks, like:

http://www.windowscentral.com/spartan-browser-crush-old-internet-explorer-11-bench

Since the Spartan layout is a fork of Trident, I suppose there are some
base schema or paradigms in Trident that cannot yet be completely
divorced from in Spartan.

[Roderick Stewart]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:51:03 +0000, John > wrote:

>>On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:20:11 -0400, Disguised
> wrote:
>>
>>>...in name only. :-)
>>>
>>
>>I won't miss it.
>
> *I* will. How can one rage against the machine when the buggers
>remove the machine?

Use a different machine.

Rod.

[occam[_2_]]

On 18/03/2015 01:51, John wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:58:09 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:20:11 -0400, Disguised
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> ...in name only. :-)
>>>
>>
>> I won't miss it.
>
> *I* will. How can one rage against the machine when the buggers
> remove the machine?
> J.
Don't worry. Ragers, whiners and general purpose ranters normally find
something to rage about. IE or no IE, same difference.