Balancing user-friendliness and developer convenience
Balancing user-friendliness and developer convenience As a part of our mission to make the web a better experience for all Windows customers, we spend a lot of time looking for ways to improve the Microsoft Edge user experience for end users and developers alike. Introducing a “soft developer mode” for Microsoft Edge Starting with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we introduced a change to how developer items are represented in the Microsoft Edge context menu. This change is designed to reduce end user confusion and accidental invocation of the F12 Developer Tools, while preserving full fidelity for developers and minimizing the need for settings toggles. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update introduces a “soft developer mode,” which disables context menu entries for the F12 Developer Tools by default. Developer-specific options like “View Source”, and “Inspect Element” are hidden, but developers will [ more… ]