Wappalyzer: Port to Microsoft Edge

[Revod]

Here are the news about the tools to port the extension to Microsoft Edge Browser: http://mspoweruser.com/microsofts-new-tool-lets-developers-convert-their-chrome-extensions-to-edge-extensions/

I'm trying to port it for test but I having a problem here, Getting this:
_manifest.json  .background : Missing required property: persistent_

[Revod]

Edit: Now Working on Edge Without problem 💯

[GeorgeWL]

why on earth should an outdated browser be supported?

[Revod]

@Georgiel Microsoft Edge an outdated browser? WTF

[GeorgeWL]

@Revod yeah, it's atrocious in its support of HTML5 and of new Javascript technologies.

[Borderliner]

@Georgiel Although I hate Microsoft's guts and everything they produce, Edge supports more HTML5 elements than Mozilla Firefox 47.

[gadcam]

@Revod if you send a pull request with your changes to port Wappalyzer to Edge I think @AliasIO would be delighted to merge it!

[jeyaprakashk]

Is it possible to fork or pull request this.. I am very interested in this..

[AlexMagik]

Same here. would love this extension on my Edge..

[BadgerBadgerBadgerBadger]

@GeorgeWL I think you're talking about the IE browsers? Edge is actually pretty good in its support. And I'm a very vocal disliker of IE.

[DaAwesomeP]

@Revod Wappalyzer has moved onto a WebExtension stack using Mozilla's polyfill. Sadly, Edge's API doesn't support Promises but does use the browser variable. Would you help to get the extension to work in Edge?

[AliasIO]

It's working in Edge now (8774fb6b86d3ef3d4fe09ffa7077e608b57934c2). Getting it into the Windows App Store is a bit of a process, hopefully I can get it approved soon.

[DaAwesomeP]

@AliasIO So why exactly does Microsoft use the browser variable but not support promises? Doesn't that mean that the entire polyfill must simple be hard-coded on a case-by-case basis?

[GeorgeWL]

@DaAwesomeP Hopefully they'll change there mind about that.

[AliasIO]

@DaAwesomeP They acknowledged the issue here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/9421085/

[DaAwesomeP]

If you may, anyone watching this issue should click the "Me too" button (requires a Microsoft login). It looks like they haven't done anything about it since October 2016.

[gadcam]

@AliasIO Maybe you could close it as won't fix ?

There are only 80 extensions available for Edge, Microsoft doesn't seem to make a lot of effort to enable extensions to be in their store cf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/edgeextensions/pc

[AliasIO]

Yeah. Their last feedback was that it 'failed to install' on 'Windows 10 Desktop'. Apparently they don't know how to install an Edge extension. No way to respond to it either.

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[AliasIO]

Wappalyzer is now available on Edge:

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/mnbndgmknlpdjdnjfmfcdjoegcckoikn