Microsoft hasn’t released a new build of Windows 10 in several weeks but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a look at the upcoming Spartan browser. Thanks to a new leak from a build that has not been released, we can get a closer view of what this new feature will look like.
A whole bunch of screenshots of Microsoft’s new browser.
I’m sure the world is anxiously awaiting a new browser from Microsoft.
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Easy to ‘forget’ when microsoft bashing, but they have also been at the forfront of browser compatibility for a number of years. Back in 2000, I think it was, that IE5 (mac) was the first browser to support HTML 4 and CSS Fully. If you use IE11 today, you will find, again, Microsoft makes one of the most standards compliant and secure browsers available on the market.
IE6 is gone, you should let it go too. Look at what they are actuall doing rather than judging on a perception of the past..
MS lock-in tactics aren’t gone though. So I wouldn’t trust anything they do until they actively prove it can be trusted.
oh come on you’re just trolling, by your standards they’ll never be able to “prove” that.
Is that a proper title bar I see? Oh, hell yeah! It’s bad UI design to remove a fundamental aspect of the OS, never mind that page titles often get truncated on tabs.
Lets hope they have proper tab management for large numbers of tabs. The lack of anything even remotely as useful as Firefox’s Tab Groups keeps me from even considering Chrome as my primary browser.
Tab Groups are absolutely indispensable to me. All the Chrome alternatives just plain suck.
Why does everything have to look boring these days? Where’s the spinning rainbow pinwheel?
With all the multi platform stuff Microsoft is doing lately, I wonder if there will be an Android/iOS/MacOS/Linux version of Spartan.
An iOS version won’t surely happen.
Nice, but those thin, hard-to-scale, flat images looks absolutely ridiculous on a 4k monitor.
Spartan seems to be a Metro app. Those should scale well AFAIK.
I’m pretty sure the presence of minimize/maximize buttons in the top right means it’s not a Metro app.
But, being new and built for Windows 10, I’m pretty sure it’s safe to assume that it’ll work well on high-dpi displays just fine.
I hope future versions of Spartan will not be tied to the latest Windows version and will be updated similarly to Chrome and Mozilla.
Supporting old versions of IE is a major pain and there is no such problem with other browsers.
One can dream…
My GUESS is that Spartan itself wont be multi device but its rendering engine will be in a form.
What I think will happen is that Microsoft will harness their cloud prowess to make an amazon silk-style system which will then be served to 3rd parties.
In essance your page will be rendered in the cloud and delivered to your device ‘complete’.
Whether the App Store policies involved will allow its use is another matter…
I really like how Spartan looks, but I think Safari is years ahead in esthetics apartment.
BTW I’m using Firefox and I will never go back to Safari… yeah Firefox is ugly as hell in Mac OSX but It’s so versatile and stable that I don’t care about looks.
Modern browser navigating through dll and using htm extension… Give me a break.