webview

  1. Microsoft Copilot in Windows 11: Native or WebView?

    There's a new version of Copilot in town for Windows 11, and it's sparking quite the debate over its true nature. If you've been paying attention to Microsoft's recent releases, you might have noticed that this is at least the fourth iteration of Copilot designed to assist users in their...
  2. Enhancing automated testing in Microsoft Edge with new WebDriver capabilities, W3C protocol support, and automatic updates

    Just last week, the WebDriver specification officially became a W3C Recommendation, defining a standard way for web developers and browser engineers to automate the browser. This is a major step forward for web site and web app testing, as well as cross-browser interoperability initiatives like...
  3. Bringing a modern WebView to your .NET WinForms and WPF Apps

    One of the founding principles of Microsoft Edge is that it is evergreen, with automatic updates to Windows 10 continually refreshing both Microsoft Edge itself and web content throughout Windows 10. However, until recently, WinForms and WPF apps didn’t have access to the Microsoft Edge-powered...
  4. Supercharging JavaScript performance with asm.js

    In June we introduced preview support for asm.js, which is now supported by default in Microsoft Edge starting with Microsoft EdgeHTML 13.10532. With this change, Hosted Web Applications and the WebView in any Universal Windows Application can now benefit from asm-optimized code as well. Asm.js...
  5. Building your own Windows 10 Web Browser

    Seems like with every Windows release, there's a set of sample apps that wrap the browser, showing you how you can add your own chrome (as in UI) to it, adding features and behaviors, creating your own web browser. Windows 10 is no different. Then again it is, because this time around, it's...
  6. Creating your own browser with HTML and JavaScript

    Over the past several months, we have made numerous improvements to the Microsoft Edge rendering engine (Microsoft EdgeHTML), focusing on interoperability with modern browsers and compliance with new and emerging standards. In addition to powering Microsoft Edge, EdgeHTML is also available for...
  7. Project Westminster in a nutshell

    Hi, I’m Link Removed an Engineer on the Microsoft Edge Web Apps team, I’m so happy to talk to you in depth about Project Westminster. About Universal Windows Platform Bridges Universal Windows Platform Bridges consist of a toolkit of three components: developer tools, Store ingestion...
  8. Windows 7 Pete at Tech Ed 2011: Cogent DataHub WebView in Silverlight

    At Tech Ed 2011, David Pugmire and I had the pleasure of speaking with Ken Collins from Cogent. He demonstrated the Cogent DataHub WebView product—a product built using Silverlight and backed by cloud services. The product includes real-time information display from various sensors and...