Microsoft adds bidirectional cookie support to IE mode in Edge

Microsoft has added support for bidirectional cookies to the Internet Explorer mode of the Edge browser. This allows legacy websites to transfer data to modern websites and vice versa. This should help companies with legacy websites to use them for longer.

In a blog post tells a Microsoft employee that it was previously only possible to send data from modern websites, via cookies, to legacy websites, but not the other way around. Legacy websites are websites that are supported by older browser engines, such as Internet Explorer. According to the man, cookies that can send data in both directions are important when an organization works with a mix of modern and legacy websites.

On June 15, 2022, Microsoft will stop supporting Internet Explorer 11 on various versions of Windows 10. Partly because many companies use internal websites that are only supported by Internet Explorer, the company has added an IE mode to the Edge browser. That mode will be supported in the Edge browser through 2029.

Internet Explorer was released by Microsoft in 1995, and for many years it was the world’s most popular web browser. Twenty years after the release of IE, Microsoft released its Edge browser, replacing Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer Roadmap