IT House on November 22 The foreign media mspoweruser reported that it has been nearly two years since Microsoft announced that it would abandon the development of its own EdgeHTML rendering engine, and the Edge browser adopted Google's open source Chromium rendering engine.
However, unlike other companies, Microsoft not only replaced its own engine with Google’s, but also became an enthusiastic contributor to the project.
A few days ago, Microsoft Senior Product Manager Eric Lawrence released a slide that lists Microsoft's contributions to the Chromium project. And said, Chromium: Better together (Chromium: Better together). The home of
IT learned that the content on the slide shows that Microsoft has submitted at least 1835 change lists (referring to the built-in changes that have been submitted to version control or are undergoing code review) to the project. These changes come from 161 Microsoft developers and Contributed to the following components:
accessibility
improved battery life
HTML table control
media playback
canvas rendering performance
Windows font rendering
layout
scrolling
zz editing and virtual keyboard
WebXR1JSONz1 and 0zzzz Enterprise Privacy Modules Storage API, JSONz0 and 0zHTML , Release quality and security improvements
Considering the size of the contribution, it will be more convenient for developers to transfer Chromium from Google’s projects to Google and Microsoft’s projects.
