Revealed the first captures of "Spartan"

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Last week it was rumored that Microsoft would be working on a new web browser, codenamed Spartan, with the intention of to be able to offer a better alternative to Firefox and Chrome for end users."

According to what was revealed at the time, Spartan would use a modified version of Trident as its rendering engine (ie, it would not adopt WebKit), but it would implement major interface changes from what we were used to seeing until Internet Explorer 11.

With this new design, together with a name change and improvements such as support for extensions, it would seek to offer a more modern experience that captivates users, in order to overcome the stigma of a bad browser with which Internet Explorer has to load to this day (unfairly, I would say).

Well, a week after that we finally have the first preview of what the Spartan interface might look like These are a couple of screenshots obtained by Neowin , and although they are somewhat blurry, they show us what is evidently a new interface for a web browser.

To be able to appreciate this design more clearly and sharply, Neowin has created a mockup or concept at a higher resolution, using blurred captures as a base. The result is something like this:

Simply put, this is a layout very similar to what exists today in almost all other browsers, including Firefox and Chrome. Tabs above the address bar, a large address and search bar on the second row, and a few basic function buttons on the sides: back and forward, page refresh, and options.

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As for specific functions of this browser, there is the inclusion of a reading mode button>"

Regarding the rest of the interface, the only thing they tell us in Neowin is that Spartan will work in a window without borders, so maximize the space available for web pages. Outside of that there are no further details, neither regarding the options menu, downloads or favorites, nor regarding how the expected system of extensions will work.

At the moment it is unknown when the presentation date of this new browser will be. Last week Mary Jo Foley was speculating that this could see the light of day at the Windows 10 event on January 21, but there's also the possibility that Spartan is still not be finished enough by that date to be shown to the world.

Via | Neowin