Post by @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev

2026-09-30 05:16 UTC

Because edge is actually based on chromium? Basically all of it is chromium. There is a ton of stuff that is not just the rendering extension that is included like extensions, pwa support, or hardware interface protocols (like webusb) that are from chromium, that wouldn’t work if edge was just using blink. Chromium isn’t just the rendering engine, it’s this whole platform. They do mention blink in the article, so they do seem to be aware of this distrinction.

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@victorz@lemmy.world 2026-09-30 05:39

Well, egg on my face, Edge is a bigger rip-off than I thought. Thanks for the enlightenment.

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@buffalobuffalo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-30 12:23

i don’t see pwa or webusb/webhid/webserial talked about enough. There’s so much cool stuff that can be done with it. it lets kids to be able to program an ESP32 for learning electronics. it lets me re-flash my keyboard without needing to download any additional software. comma.ai uses it for factory resetting their devices. i used to use pwa for homeassistant and klipper/fluidd 3d printer control, and while Zen essentials kinda fills that use case, a standalone window would be nice. I remember seeing talks about making progress towards supporting pwa, but i guess nobody else cares. Just like their conversation on webserial. Darn shame that we get integrated ai instead

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