Edge browser ditches react for a faster WebUI 2.0(thenewstack.io)
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Edge browser ditches react for a faster WebUI 2.0
https://thenewstack.io/from-react-to-html-first-microsoft-edge-debuts-webui-2-0/
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Wasn't the old old Windows Update a web app that used ActiveX?
> “Starting with Edge 122, the Browser Essentials UI is now much more responsive. The UI is now 42% faster for Edge users and a whopping 76% faster for those of you on a device without an SSD or with less than 8GB RAM!”
If their old frontend was reading from disk enough for it to cause a 76% opportunity, their performance problems had nothing to do with React.
If their old frontend was reading from disk enough for it to cause a 76% opportunity, their performance problems had nothing to do with React.
Open source WebUI 2.0 library https://github.com/webui-dev/webui ?
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I thought it was Outlook that pioneered Ajax. It's not even mentioned in the article.
> In 1998, the Microsoft Outlook Web Access team developed the concept behind the XMLHttpRequest scripting object
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)