Back in March, we reported that Microsoft was preparing to retire IE on June 15 and updated the IE mode in Edge to deal with the confusion caused by the incompatibility of old web technologies.
As a result, developers can continue to rely on Microsoft Edge when using their IE-based web applications. This also applies when they embed web content through the MSHTLM (Trident) engine, all in order to make the transition for developers both effective and seamless.
Microsoft recommends Microsoft Edge WebView2 to developers, which the company considers to be “the best and newest web platform for building embedded browsing experiences.” According to Microsoft, according to tests conducted by Cerner, “Microsoft Edge WebView2 has 85 percent less render time, 33 percent less CPU utilization, and 32 percent less memory utilization than Internet Explorer.”
Microsoft Edge WebView2, which will be released today, has a .Net MAUI framework that will help developers get their jobs done as easily as they would with IE.
Microsoft further said that WebView2 for users using WinUI 2/UWP will soon reach universal availability.