With the latest Windows 10 Preview build, Build 10532, Microsoft Edge has gained impressive performance improvements and many changes to show off. The HTML5 score has jumped to 435 from the previous best of 412 registered on Build 10525. Score of 435 makes it top Safari’s score and compare well with Firefox. There are many other chnages listed by Microsoft for Microsoft Edge on Build 10532.
Microsoft Edge on Build 10532 changelog:
New
New EdgeHTML features now available to preview:
- Pointer Lock (Mouse Lock)
- Extended srcset (sizes)
- Canvas blending modes
- <meter> element
- oninvalid event handler
- input type=time
- input type=text selectionDirection
New Chakra features now available to preview:
- asm.js now enabled by default (previously behind a flag)
- ES2015 Classes now enabled by default (previously behind a flag)
- ES2015 Destructuring now available behind the Experimental JavaScript features flag
- ES2015 conformance updates
- ES2016 Async Functions now available behind the Experimental JavaScript features flag
