Microsoft touts their contributions to Chromium development.

It has been nearly two years since Microsoft announced that they would be giving up on the development of their EdgeHTML rendering engine and adopting Google’s open-source Chromium rendering engine.

Unlike other companies however Microsoft has not only swapped their engine to that of Google’s, but have also become enthusiastic contributors to the project.

A few days ago Microsoft PM Eric Lawrence post a slide listing Microsoft’s contributions to the project.

Chromium: Better together ? pic.twitter.com/uJVUIDm9q1

— ? Eric Lawrence (@ericlaw) November 18, 2020

The slide says Microsoft has made at least 1835 changelists (one self-contained change that has been submitted to version control or which is undergoing code review) to the project from 161 Microsoft developers and contributed to the following components:

• Accessibility
• Battery-life improvements
• HTML form controls
• Media Playback
• Canvas rendering performance
• Windows font rendering
• Layout
• Scrolling
• Editing & Virtual Keyboard
• WebXR
• HTML, JSON & CSS modules
• Privacy – StorageAccess API
• Enterprise, release quality and security improvements

Given the size of the contribution, it won’t take too much more to move Chromium from Google’s project to Google and Microsoft’s project.

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