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Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script

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Mayayana wrote:
> "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote
> 
> | Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") | | Can I do
>  the same thing with Microsoft Edge? How? |
> 
> Did you check the Registry for an application object ProgID? I doubt
>  it exists. Edge *is* IE. I don't know the technical details. I 
> suspect there's probably an edge.exe along with iexplore.exe, but 
> that they're both wrappers around the same basic libraries like 
> mshtml.dll, shdocvw.dll, etc.
> 
> The difference is that Edge has most IE-specific functionality 
> removed. There's no option for compatibility mode, VBScript, ActiveX,
>  or any other IE-specific fiunctionality. So even if there were an 
> application object it would be of little use. MS have tried to make 
> Edge a standards-consistent browser. And since IE is still there for
>  the sake of corporate customers who use things like HTAs, there's 
> really no reason to have a redundant-but-crippled Edge object.

Thank you. I still use IE exclusively for browsing and HTA's extensively
locally. I was just wondering what I may be missing. Apparently, nothing.

There is an edge executable file buried deep within the system, but it
is outside the default system path. I haven't tried executing it either
from a script or the keyboard:

C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge.exe
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Crash

"The future ain't what it used to be."
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Running Microsoft Edge from script "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-08-30 07:33 -0400
  Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-08-30 08:39 -0400
    Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-08-30 12:16 -0400
    Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-08-31 23:33 +0700
      Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script "Dave \"Crash\" Dummy" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-08-31 14:00 -0400
        Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-09-01 19:12 +0700
      Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-08-31 18:10 -0400
        Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-08-31 22:39 -0400
        Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-09-01 19:06 +0700
          Re: Running Microsoft Edge from script "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-09-01 09:10 -0400

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