Microsoft has added a raft of web components to its list of deprecated features, including legacy Edge developer tools and hosted web apps.

While they are not yet removed, when components arrive on the deprecated features list it signifies that Microsoft has ceased active development and is in the process of phasing them out.

The components – Legacy Web View, Hosted and Windows Web Applications, Legacy Progressive Web Apps, and the EdgeHTML developer tools are built on the EdgeHTML engine, which debuted in 2015 as the Edge browser in Windows 10 before being ditched a few years later when Microsoft changed tack in favor of Chromium.

Excising EdgeHTML from Microsoft's products is an ongoing challenge. Dvelopers by and large steered clear of it, as evidenced by Edge's pitiful showing in va

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