This has pushed the advancement of browsers to what we see today.Ī modern browser requires the support of many software which include: web browser engines like Geeko, Trident, WebKit, KHTML, etc, Rendering engine to render the website content and display it in a proper format. With an introduction in around 1991, their development and advancement have advanced many folds till the current stage which we see today.Įarlier there used to be mostly text-based sites with few having images and graphical content, hence only text-based browsers sufficed with some of the early browsers being: Lynx, w3m, and eww (Emacs Web Wowser).īut, with the advancement of technology to support audio, video, images, and even flash content, browsers also need to be that advanced to support such content. You'll no longer have to host the list in an on-premises location, which should simplify the experience for businesses.A web Browser is software that provides an interface to surf the web. There's a new Cloud Site List Management experience, which is meant to make it easier to list which sites should open in an IE Mode tab. Of course, all of this good stuff has been done, and Internet Explorer is no longer accessible in Windows. What IE Mode does is it basically puts Internet Explorer in an Edge browser tab. If you're unfamiliar with IE Mode, the idea is to offer a way for businesses to transition to Edge from Internet Explorer before the browser is retired in June.

The other Microsoft Edge announcement at Ignite was a new IE Mode improvement.

Sadly, Windows and macOS users won't see it. If you go to play the built-in Surf game by going to edge://surf, and use the famous Konami cheat code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A), there's an Easter egg in the game. That's not all though, because if you're on the Dev channel on Linux, there's a special surprise.

Edge for linux