A lot of confusion between various comments so far so this is my attempt to re-baseline:
- Chakra is the JavaScript engine in I.E. 11 (and later forked for the old MS Edge), Trident (MSHTML) was the browser engine (forked into EdgeHTML for the old MS Edge).
- The I.E. 11 desktop application is just that, the desktop application. It is not all of I.E. 11 or it's engines, the rest of which are still in Windows 11 even.
- I.E. mode is the first party way to access the remaining portions of I.E. 11 via the current Chromium Edge, this is what allowed them to sunset the I.E. desktop application.
All that said I don't particularly buy this as being particularly more secure. Sure, it's only getting security fixes but that doesn't inherently mean it is more secure or getting more security fixes than modern solutions. It could just be becoming an outdated security architecture that is only patched often enough to keep the minute userbase happy enough.
- Chakra is the JavaScript engine in I.E. 11 (and later forked for the old MS Edge), Trident (MSHTML) was the browser engine (forked into EdgeHTML for the old MS Edge).
- The I.E. 11 desktop application is just that, the desktop application. It is not all of I.E. 11 or it's engines, the rest of which are still in Windows 11 even.
- I.E. mode is the first party way to access the remaining portions of I.E. 11 via the current Chromium Edge, this is what allowed them to sunset the I.E. desktop application.
All that said I don't particularly buy this as being particularly more secure. Sure, it's only getting security fixes but that doesn't inherently mean it is more secure or getting more security fixes than modern solutions. It could just be becoming an outdated security architecture that is only patched often enough to keep the minute userbase happy enough.