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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Sep 20, 2019 7:20PM

> (And indeed, if Microsoft manages to actually pull off a modern
> browser that can smoothly switch between a Webkit rendering engine[....]
Not Webkit, I meant Blink - the Chrome rendering engine that Edge is now
using.

Phil.

On 2019-09-20 21:14, Philip Kiff wrote:
>> Is JAWS and IE relevant anymore since IE will be poofed out of the MS
>> infrastructure in early 2020?
> Mmm. Good point, but is IE really disappearing in 2020?
>
> Like I say, I'm not really on top of the current news on this - I only
> replied to this thread initially in order not to leave Sreekar in the
> lurch without any responses. There are many folks on this list who
> know considerably more than me about the state of screen readers and
> browsers.
>
> But is IE really disappearing? There are still tons and tons of
> intranets and custom applications that have been coded poorly and will
> only work on IE. Those aren't going to disappear in 2020. I thought
> that what Microsoft was planning on doing was somehow magically
> incorporating an IE 11 emulator into Edge in order to guarantee that
> all those crappy intranets will still work for several more years
> while systems folk around the world scramble to recode what should
> have never been coded in the first place, or to create replacements
> that are written in proper, acceptable standards-compliant and
> somewhat-accessible code.
>
> Aren't they even going to keep supporting IE 11 as an Enterprise
> product for a while?
>
> If both those are true, then whether you call it Edge or IE 11, there
> will be lots of sites that still have to work with it? But like I say,
> I'm not sure if all that is true?
>
> (And indeed, if Microsoft manages to actually pull off a modern
> browser that can smoothly switch between a Webkit rendering engine and
> some crazy IE 11 emulator, then someone over in their coding dept.
> will deserve considerable praise. But I wonder if all that will really
> be possible.... :-)
>
> Phil.
>
> On 2019-09-20 17:25, David Engebretson Jr. wrote:
>> Is JAWS and IE relevant anymore since IE will be poofed out of the MS
>> infrastructure in early 2020?
>>
>> Just curious. Here's what I test with:
>> Safari on IOS, and OSX
>> NVDA with Firefox and Chrome
>> JAWS with Firefox, Chrome, and Edge
>>
>> Best,
>> David
>>
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