It just means use the latest possible rendering engine (IE had the ability to fallback to previous rendering engines for compatibility reasons). The 'Edge' that is referred to in that metatag is which rendering engine that should be used. It is 'the latest IE version' the way that Chrome is the latest Webkit version.
It is a new browser that was forked from IE.
This is not what it seems, just a case of an overused word.įirstly, Edge is not the latest version of Internet Explorer. How does IE 9 know of the latest IE version (= Edge) as Edge did not exist when IE 9 came out? Via Windows Updates? Or.? We now have a web application, which only works well when having set
How does an old Internet Explorer know of a newer version in context of X-UA-compatible My company is still using Internet Explorer 9 (yes, should be upgraded, we know) due to policy.
