Office Add-ins should run in Edge, not IE11
At the moment Word runs Add-ins in IE11
IE11 doesnt support ES2016, and is therefore much harder to develop for than all of the other newer browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge).
Word should run Add-ins in Edge
Fergus McDowall
shared this idea
We are actively working on this feature and will share more details on availability as soon as we can.
Thanks!
Office Extensibility Team
8 comments
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Michael Coxon commented
Considering that many organisations still run Windows 7 and Edge is not supported in Windows 7, will these clients still run Office Add-ins in IE11? If so - would a better approach to this issue be to embed a better browser engine in Office so that everyone will have the same experience and the developers won't have to jump through the same old IE hoops?
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Raed Alahmad
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Outlook Apps has frontend limitations because of ES6+ on IE11. it would be much better to switch to Edge.
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Anonymous commented
Additionally Save as web also should considering save for Edge HTML 5 above IE 6 and above
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Brett McKenzie
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Will this only be in Win10? I assume those on Windows 7/8/8.1 will still be running IE.
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Christian Roy
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It would also be nice to replace Excel Mac browser with something that support ES6.
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Joshua Jolley
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Versions of webpack-dev-server after 2.7.1 don't support IE11, so switching from IE11 to Edge will help developers using common build tools like @angular/cli. Please prioritize this!
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Fergus McDowall
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Thats great! If I could just add an extra suggestion for awesomeness: make sure that edge's "developer tools/js debugger" is available when running add-ins in Word
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atti
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The same applies to the Excel I think.