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Home for explainer documents originated by the Microsoft Edge team

16 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 7 stories, 9 comments · first 2019-05-09 · latest 2026-03-11

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  1. …the PWA experience good. In origin trial right now is the ability for websites to install PWAs: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... . This would make it much easier to find and install web apps than the current…
    comment by mehagar · 2026-01-29 · in Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
  2. …proposed web standards with Google and Microsoft's backing to help with that, e.g. Web Install: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...
    comment by judah · 2026-01-01 · in iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
  3. There is a proposal to add support for this: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...
    comment by scottfr · 2025-08-18 · in Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
  4. …(us!) that will be soon. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/vsPdd... [2] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... [3] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues?q=anch...
    comment by jefftk · 2023-03-01 · in Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
  5. …section. You can often find explainer docs linked off of https://chromestatus.com/ e.g. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... I think you'll find that explainers are 10000% better for learning features than specs…
    comment by dfabulich · 2022-01-13 · in Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier
  6. …but your experience makes me wonder about the current web API for highlighting spans of text. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... Complicated...
    comment by watersb · 2021-10-26 · in The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text
  7. …in Web Application manifest specification (that currently only supports protocols, not websites). https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/...
    comment by captn3m0 · 2021-06-14 · in Let web applications be file handlers
  8. …used for fingerprinting. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals... [2]: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/maste...
    comment by spankalee · 2020-07-09 · in Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
  9. …excellent explainer[1]. [0] https://techdows.com/2019/03/chrome-to-get-native-caret-brow... [1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/maste...
    comment by frosted-flakes · 2019-05-09 · in Internet Explorer Browser Collection