How to target Edge browser with javascript

Try to detect features instead of a specific browser. It’s more future-proof. Only rarely should you use browser detection. With that out of the way: one option is to use a library (there are many intricacies to User Agent strings), or alternatively to parse window.navigator.userAgent manually. Using a parser library # https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js. var parser = … Read more

Add new Microsoft Edge to web browser control?

UPDATE Jan 2021: WebView2 has been released. This enables integration of the Chromium based Edge as a web control. It’s a lot more complicated to use, unfortunately, but a lot more powerful. Works with WinForms or WPF or C++ apps. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ UPDATE May 2018: FINALLY Microsoft has made it easy. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webview-winforms-wpf-apps/ For now, the new … Read more

Is there a Selenium WebDriver available for the Microsoft Edge browser?

Yes, there is a WebDriver implementation for Microsoft Edge. Its initial availability was announced on 23 July 2015. Language bindings in the Selenium open source project have been updated to take advantage of this driver implementation, and those updates have been released in Selenium 2.47. Note that the Java language bindings were re-released as 2.47.1 … Read more

Can’t open localhost in Microsoft Edge (Project Spartan) in Windows 10 preview

So the issue is Spartan Edge doesn’t have access to the loopback addresses, which is something that most Windows Store apps are blocked from accessing. If you are using Windows 10 RTM or build 10166, this can be done by navigating to about:flags and checking “Allow localhost loopback”: Image courtesy of Ryan Joy and used … Read more

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