It's because the scale is small. The size is set to 80x80 pixels, presumably for icon exporting. However there's nothing stopping someone from opening it inkscape and exporting a PNG at 12000 DPI (which results in a 10k x 10k raster resolution). I don't think the logo scale should be so small and I don't think browser should have such limited zoom capability. I place the most blame on the browsers though.
This always differs by people. I thought Samsung pretty clearly swiped the Apple look with the early versions of Android. Even beyond the rounded corners. Sure, it isn't a pixel perfect copy. But I do think inspiration was drawn, even if not intentional.
I have a bunch of icons in my dock and the only two that look similar are browsers. (I hacked up a copy of the Edge logo from the article and slapped it on a applescript to put it in my dock)
These comparisons will be made all over the place, since these designs are always inspiring each other. When I see the new edge logo, I see something that resembles some of the unused branding of the Xbox One and Xbox360, something that resembles the Firefox logo, something that resembles the new design direction of the office suite, something that looks a little like iOS gradients, something that looks a little like the Chrome logo, and so on. I'd say it looks a lot more like old Xbox branding than Firefox branding, though.
As far as analogies go, I think it's closest to the chromium logo [1], when kinematically interpreted as some sort of extruding shell segments [2], or blades of an aperture (Aperture Science). Overall it's visual language elements are surely intentionally aligned well centered in a space between IE ℮, Chrome and Firefox.
There are surely multiple ways to describe similarities.
The destinction between chrome and edge is not so hard to me, if seen in contrast between geometric and organic shapes. Firefox and even the mocks (since when do mockups even count, they are explorative for a reason) are way more on the organic side, while besides the last green slob, the edge logo is in strictly geometric territory. As I said there are similiarities, but then one should also bring up a mirrored Ubisoft logo, or various other Spiral/Nautilus inspired ones.
This is where I get with only a mirror and two identical rotations on different identical subgroups on the suprisingly complex chromium svg logo. (This is as far as I get in 5 minutes, but hope it conveys my interpretation). The tripartion of circular segments as most striking similiarity to me.
That was my first thought. I’m sure I’ve seen some unsolicited re-design of the Firefox icon that looked very similar to this, but with an orange palette.
I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3.
I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS Code, is a free and open source Microsoft product. It's also the product that really enabled me to make the switch in comfort. Maybe soon though I'll be using Bing more too (among others like DDG) if Google decides to completely remove URLs from search result links.
I use Vivaldi on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's the most customizable browser I've used since Opera 12 (which makes sense, since one of the Opera founders started Vivaldi).
Edge is based on Blink, not WebKit. Remember that Blink was forked from WebKit six years ago. In web time, that might as well be a century, given the leaps that have been made in web tech in browsers.
Falkon is the KDE browser which is WebKit-based and not Google. It works on at least Linux and Windows. I believe the GNOME browser (Epiphany?) is also WebKit-based.
GNOME Web (aka Epiphany)¹ does use WebKitGTK², but Falkon³ uses QtWebEngine⁴, which is based on Chromium. Qt integrates "the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick" and
does "not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:
- Binary files are stripped out
- Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out
- The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like OpenSSL"
So Falkon is not like Opera and this new Edge which use almost everything from Chromium, including the app shell, but it's web engine is Chromium.
Good logo but that is not going to have anyone start using edge. They offer nothing new. I think brave is far better and innovative browser if anyone wants to try something different then chrome or FF.
Having a good, standards compliant browser with active development by default will be something I'll much appreciate. I hope this makes it to Windows Server; I am so sick of only being able to use the extra-locked down, terrible version of IE when I have no other choice but to use a browser when remoted into a box.
They're replacing EdgeHTML (the internal engine within Edge) with Blink (the internal engine within Chromium). The name of the overall Edge product isn't changing (to my knowledge).
The name isn't going, but we also are replacing much more than just edgehtml. The new version of edge shares very little code with the old version of edge
Edge in its current form is being replaced by a version based on Chromium. I can see why people would want to use that when it becomes default since it would have the advantages of using Chrome but without the extra download.
It'll on the default install of Windows 10 once 1.0 is formally released. When people realize it's Microsoft Chrome then they'll ditch Google's version of Chrome. It's actually a pretty smart move by MS as they'll quickly become the dominant browser again.
It's an endless joy for me when Microsoft fails to get traction with their new shiny browser and changes something as a fresh start.
It's a decent browser but never again IE. Keep rebranding the browser downloading tool, Microsoft.
That said, these days I am annoyed by "This browser is not supported, use Chrome" messages. Maybe the the history does not repeat but rhymes after all.
Browsers should be made by non-profits like mozilla, in my opinion.
It's not really about the technology but about what Microsoft did until someone finally managed to take them down.
Microsoft has a cool CEO and Bill Gates is just a tad short of an angel these days, however a history of suffering should not be forgotten. What Microsoft did was not benign.
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