The Windows 10 Anniversary Update contains a stable release of EdgeHTML 14. It supports loading browser extensions from the Store. Edge supports a new HTML, JavaScript, and CSS-based extension model. Existing Chrome extensions can be easily migrated because this new model is Chrome-compatible. For more details, see supported APIs.
New HTML5 standards
- Beacon interface: Enables web applications to asynchronously transfer data from the user agent to a web server, with the user agent taking the responsibility to eventually send the data.
- Web Notifications API: An API for displaying simple notifications to the user.
- Fetch API: Defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them; fetching.
- Time element
- Data element
- Output element
- Input type="color" element
- Drag and drop folders: Users can now upload folders to sites like OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive by dragging and dropping into Microsoft Edge.
New formats
- Opus audio format
- VP9 video format
- H.264/AVC decoding is now available through the ORTC API
- Canvas Path2D objects
- Web Speech API (Synthesis)
- WOFF 2 fonts
- Color ClearType fonts
New JavaScript features
- Default parameters: Allows formal parameters to be initialized with default values if no value is passed.
- Exponentiation operator
- Array.prototype.includes
- Object.values and Object.entries