Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by bdash » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:08 AM UTC

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by bdash » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:15 AM UTC

In an email to the WebKit development mailing list[1] Håkon Wium Lie, the Opera CTO, mentioned that they've had engineers working on WebKit for a while now, and they'll soon be contributing their work on multi-column layout to the WebKit project.

[1]: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-February/...

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by szalansky » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:18 AM UTC

At last. Opera used to be my favorite browser, thanks to their sophisticated UI. But I gave it up when HTML5 started coming in. I believe it had problems with Javascripts too.

Is mobile Opera very different from the desktop one? I see many Android users using it and being happy.

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by pestaa » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:20 AM UTC

WebKit was the reason why I started using other browsers -- I'm very excited to see it in Opera!

I wonder what'll happen to Dragonfly, their integrated development platform? It was a neat project, although arguably inferior to Firebug/Chrome Dev Tools in many areas.

Good luck Opera!

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by spicyj » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:21 AM UTC

And then there were three.

Which will happen first, the death of one of (WebKit, Gecko, Trident) or a new popular rendering engine not related to any of them?

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by gl0wa » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:22 AM UTC

Now it's time for IE to switch to WebKit as well. Also, they should make it available for all versions of Windows.

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by grandpoobah » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:23 AM UTC

Does this mean they'll be using V8 too?

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by daGrevis » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:24 AM UTC

All I can say is "Woohoo!".

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by kibwen » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:24 AM UTC

spicyj wrote: post #5

And then there were three. Which will happen first, the death of one of (WebKit, Gecko, Trident) or a new popular rendering engine not related to any of them?

High hopes for Servo[1], but it'll still be years yet until it's able to challenge any of those three. Webkit2[2] will probably be ready sooner, but it's less of a radical departure than Servo's intended to be.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/servo

[2] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2

Re: Opera moves to WebKit

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Post by lordlarm » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:24 AM UTC

I worked for Opera the summer of 2010 and I've also been using the browser the last couple of years.

Compared to Google, Apple, Microsoft - it is important to understand that Opera is a small, very small, company.

I'm very happy to see their resources better used to innovating and improve their exiting product, rather than trying to catching up to the other browsers.

A big loss for the general state of rendering platforms though, with now only Webkit, Trident and Gecko as serious contenders.