JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real In this… Read more
The DOM is the foundation of the web platform programming model, and its design and performance impacts the rest of the browser However, its history and evolution is far from a simple Over the past three years, we've embarked on… Read more
There’s a good chance you’ve noticed that Microsoft Edge and other popular browsers have recently been focused on improving battery We've been paying particular attention to this with Windows 10, and the response has been Windows users spend more than… Read more
Today, the Windows 10 Creators Update began rolling out to over 400 million Windows 10 With the Creators Update, we’re upgrading Microsoft Edge with dozens of new features and under-the-hood improvements to make the best browser on Windows 10 faster,… Read more
Migrating legacy web apps to modern standards can be both costly and time IT departments are generally cost centers, and it makes sense for enterprises to want to maximize the ROI on their existing LOB Many of these sites may… Read more
Beginning with EdgeHTML 15 in the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft Edge introduces support for CSS Custom Properties, a new primitive value type to fully cascade variables across CSS You can preview CSS Custom Properties in Windows Insider Preview builds… Read more
In a recent post, we outlined the layered strategy that the Microsoft Edge security team employs to protect you from vulnerabilities that could be used to compromise your device or personal In particular, we showed how Microsoft Edge is leveraging… Read more
The Chakra team was delighted to host the third VM Summit recently here at These meetings bring together JavaScript VM vendors, Node collaborators, and CTC members including participants from Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, nearForm, and This group is currently focused… Read more
Just a short time ago, the new Microsoft Intune for Education was announced for teachers and technologists to manage devices, accounts, and apps for Since that time, we’ve heard from a number of developers and app publishers who work in… Read more
Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport? Animations by… Read more
