Hello,

When I do support for customers of my SaaS company, I see that many of them who are not tech-savvy cannot differentiate between one browser or another, let alone between IE and Edge. They do not have a preference for one of the two even though it makes a huge difference for us, web developers, when it comes to web standard or supported technologies.

I understand IE must still be supported for a long time because of technologies that were removed in the first version of Edge, but would it be possible, for the next big update, to "hide" or remove IE from the most visible interfaces of Windows? (such as the taskbar or the desktop). You could delete the shortcuts only once, and if the user really want to add them back, his preferences would of course be saved, but at least we're sure using IE is indeed his preference.

Thanks for your consideration !

This is a specific request for Edge to support bidi isolation per the HTML specification where the dir attribute and the bdi element are used. The wording in the request for dir=auto [1] is equally valid here.

Support for isolation is really a fundamental requirement for languages using Arabic and Hebrew and other scripts such as Thaana, Syriac, N'Ko, etc. Note also that the Arabic script is the second most widely used script around the world after the Latin script, so this affects a lot of people. And the lack of isolation is not an edge-case problem (see worked examples at http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/inline-bidi-markup/index.en#staticexamples). It's hard to understand why Edge still doesn't support isolation for any use of the dir attribute and for bdi per the HTML standard. Unfortunately, the best recommendation for users of RTL scripts around the world is currently to use another browser than Edge.

This is important for static HTML document use, but is especially problematic for apps and other dynamic environments.

Here are some test results that may help:

bdi https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/the-bdi-element#bdi-basic
dir isolation https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/the-dir-attribute-isolation
dir=auto https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/results/the-dir-attribute-auto#dirauto

(click on the links in the left-most column to run the tests)

To better understand the issues read:
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/uba-basics (bidi primer)
http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/inline-bidi-markup/index.en (explanations and examples of problems)

[1] https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-developer/suggestions/10784463-support-dir-auto

With binary data becoming more and more common in the browser, thanks to ArrayBuffers and TypedArrays and all the specifications that use them, we need to be able to properly log these data types to the console.

On the surface this is possible with console.log(), but is that is severely lacking when it comes to binary data. So I would like to propose the ability to log binary data in the classic hex dump format. Having a console.hex() command in the browser would certainly my my life of lot easier and probably a lot of others that work with binary data too!

For details, see this issue at whatwg / console: https://github.com/whatwg/console/issues/121

We fail to pass "dataTransfer.files" of DragEvent to "files" property of the input[type="file"] element in Edge. For example:

HTML:
<input id="fileItem" type="file">

Javascript:
var myfiles = dataTransfer.files;
document.getElementById('fileItem').files = myfiles; //This fails in Edge, but no errors are shown in console

Steps to Reproduce a Bug:
https://jsfiddle.net/vth82jst/2/

1. Drag & drop your file to input[type="file"] area
2. Check the "drop file name" and "input value"
3. Even if we drop a file, the "input value" does not change in Edge (It remains "ファイルは選択されていません" unchanged).

I am troubled when I want to select files by drag & drop in Edge.
This works fine in Chrome, Firefox, etc.