Microsoft, Google, Others Join Forces to Improve Browser Compatibility
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Tech giants unite for improved browser compatibility
Microsoft’s migration to the Chromium engine for Edge allowed the company to finally become one of the big players in the browser market, and at the same time, to also contribute to the development of this technology not only for its own good, but also for other companies.
Now Microsoft has announced that it joined forces with Google and a series of other companies for the creation of #Compat2021, a new browser effort whose purpose is to improve compatibility for everybody.
“We’re excited to join with Google, Igalia, and the broader web community in committing resources to a cross-browser effort called #Compat2021, with the goal of substantial improvements in each area,” Microsoft announced today.
“For this project, our joint working group identified the focus areas above based on feature usage data, number of bugs (or number of stars/upvotes on a given bug) in each vendor’s tracking system, various survey feedback, CanIUse data, and test results from web-platform-tests,” the company explains.
Cross-platform effort
The purpose is to eventually improve browser compatibility in a way that would involve not only the companies themselves, but the entire web community, Microsoft explains.
“We then split focus among the working group to focus on areas in respective implementations. For example, the Microsoft Edge team intends to contribute fixes to Chromium to pass 100% of CSS Grid tests this year and to support work to improve interop across browsers, as well as assisting with triage in web-platform-tests,” the company further notes.
Microsoft Edge is now available across all major desktop and mobile platforms, so in addition to Windows 10, it can also be downloaded on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Linux, and macOS. Mobile versions of Microsoft Edge are up for grabs too, as Microsoft has already released Edge on both Android and iPhone.
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