14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft giving up on EdgeHTML and moving Microsoft Edge to Chromium, the same engine that powers Google Chrome, has substantially changed Google’s perspective over Windows 10.
Living proof is none other than the plethora of features that Google is working on bringing to Windows 10 users in the Chrome browser.
Most recently, ChromeStory came across evidence indicating that Chrome would soon get support for Windows 10 system styling settings for video captions.
Closed captions in Windows 10 are an accessibility feature that allows users to read the words that are spoken in the audio track of a video running on the computer. Closed captions can be customized with a wide variety of options, including colors, transparency, style, size, and effects.
And by the looks of things, Google Chrome will soon respect these settings and use them whenever they are detected on a Windows 10 device.
Feature currently in development
By the looks of things, the feature is already in the works and the engineering team is now planning to add support for background opacity, window opacity, and window color.
There are no ETA details available to estimate when the feature could become available for users, but as it usually happens with such improvements, expect it to make its way to the Canary version of Chrome in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, it just looks like Microsoft’s migration to Chromium is already paying off. Microsoft originally said that by moving it can help the entire browsing industry, yet right now, it just seems like Windows 10 users are the ones mostly benefitting from this change.
Microsoft says a preview build of the new Microsoft Edge browser would roll out in the coming weeks, but I expect the company to release it at the Build developer conference in May. No release target for the final version is known at this point.