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Edge WebView

• Developer: Microsoft
• Development Status: Replaced by Edge WebView2
• Released: 2015
• Platforms: Windows
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: EdgeHTML

Overview

Edge WebView was Microsoft's embedded web control based on the legacy EdgeHTML version of Edge.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js separates Microsoft's legacy, current, mobile, and embedded browser identities:

Browser	Description
IE	Microsoft's legacy browser, replaced by Edge.
IE Mobile	The former mobile version of Internet Explorer.
Edge	Microsoft's browser that replaced Internet Explorer.
Edge WebView	The embedded web control from the legacy Edge platform.
Edge WebView2	The modern web control powered by the Edge Chromium runtime.

User-Agent Examples

Windows IoT

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows IoT 10.0; Android 6.0.1; WebView/3.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows IoT 10.0; Android 6.0.1; WebView/3.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Edge WebView", version: "18.17763", major: "18", type: "inapp"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.EDGE_WEBVIEW));
// true