An even faster Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Edge Blog
May 29, 2024
Edge’s UI responsiveness improvements started with understanding what you, our users, were experiencing. Edge monitors its UI responsiveness via telemetry collected from end users’ machines. We intentionally did this collection for all the parts of the Edge UI, not just for the web pages that we render. What did we learn from this data?Research indicates that there are certain absolute responsiveness targets that must be met for a user to perceive the UI as fast, and data showed our UI could be more responsive. We had an opportunity to improve responsiveness for lower resourced devices.
You might not be aware but when you use Microsoft Edge (and other Microsoft desktop apps like Outlook and Teams) much if not all of the UI is web technology based.
Microsoft has been on a mission to increase the responsiveness and performance of these UIs, as Alex Russell discussed at Web Directions Summit last year (watch the video here, no login required) which involved in no small part replacing React based UIs with Web Components.
Here the Edge team talks about how they “built an entirely new markup-first architecture that minimizes the size of our bundles of code, and the amount of JavaScript code that runs during the initialization path of the UI”.
If it’s good enough for Microsoft, maybe it’s good enough for most of the rest of us.
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