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Not to mention, Microsft, please fix the keyboard event latency in Edge[1]. It makes anything vaguely interactive, especially games, nigh on unusable, unless you particularly enjoy dying on a regular basis because the browser took 300ms to notice you'd pressed a key.

[1] Notably not a problem that affects Internet Explorer, nor (obviously) Firefox, Chrome or Safari.




They just did this. Latest release is actually usable as of the April 2018 windows 10 build (1803). Was quite surprised.


Thanks - will give it another go! Would be amazing to have that work properly since, otherwise, Edge performs and works well.


Yep. I’ve decided to give it a try for a couple of weeks. I think I lasted a day on the last release before quitting.

The new one also has reasonably sized UI elements ie smaller.


Modern computers have about five times more latency as an Apple IIe:

https://danluu.com/input-lag/


As a Mac user – how on earth could MS have a keyboard latency for so long? Seems very unprofessional.


> As a Mac user – how on earth could MS have a keyboard latency for so long? Seems very unprofessional.

A) It doesn't matter you're a "mac user".

B) It's a technical fault, not "unprofessional"


It's certainly been in there for as long as I've been using Windows 10; not sure about before that. It was super-frustrating because it affected both keyDown and keyUp, and it was also completely inconsistent.

I can, however, if I squint, just about see the argument for why it's taken so long to fix: I suspect it probably wasn't seen as that valuable for the kind of apps and sites that Microsoft think people mostly use the web for. Thing is, get off the beaten path slightly, and you find people using the web for all kinds of interesting and creative things: demos, games, music players and editors, emulators, synthesizers and instruments, image and video manipulation.

And there is a school of thought (to which I don't belong) that says all apps should run in the browser. But if that's ever going to happen, massive and inconsistent input latency of any kind is not something that can be tolerated. Even if we don't go that far, and I suspect we won't, there are still a wide range of web apps for which unpredictable input latency is not acceptable.

So I suppose what I'm saying in a very long winded-way, is that I agree it shouldn't have been there for so long, although I don't think I'd call it unprofessional.




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