Comments on: Opera and WebKit: a personal perspective

By: Sad

Sad — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:23:15 +0000

I know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own blog and was curious what all is required to get setup? I’m assuming having a blog like yours would cost a pretty penny? I’m not very internet savvy so I’m not 100% certain. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks

By: Opera talks mobile: ‘The standards discussion is still vital’ - British News Cloud

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:54:16 +0000

[...] standards war is won, then? Perhaps not. In a blog post on his personal website at the time of the WebKit announcement, Lawson explained how the debate has [...]

By: sigh

sigh — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:55:00 +0000

@Rudolf

It is a lie that Opera just changes rendering engine from presto to webkit. Opera will use Chromium. In fact it will be Chromium itself, not Opera. We don’t need yet another Chromium browser with changed icon!

Your evidence that Opera will just used Chromium and not have its own UI is where exactly?

You do realize that just because two browsers use the same engine and framework doesn’t make them identical, right? Different WebKit browsers don’t even have an identical WebKit.

By: sigh

sigh — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:53:22 +0000

I actually think Opera is the only desktop browser that hasn’t done any bundling. Chrome is bundled with Flash and other apps, and Firefox had some bundling deal a few years ago as well. IE is bundled with Windows.

Apparently Chrome, Firefox and IE are all bloatware and crapware. Says NNM.

By: sigh

sigh — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:46:10 +0000

This “NNM” character doesn’t seem to get it:

Seriously, 300 million? I think that number is fake. No one uses it voluntarily. Most Opera users had it pre-installed and never knew they could change it. That’s most Opera users grabbed by bloatware & crapware practices…

No, the vast majority of those 300 million users are people who installed it themselves. Opera Mini, Opera Mobile or Opera on a PC that they downloaded and installed manually.

No serious business (massive corporations, industry,..) uses it as their browser.

Except mobile operators across the globe? And of course Sony, Nintendo, etc.

By: Questo

Questo — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:56:23 +0000

If #51 is true (which I will thouroughly test before “updating” my production installs), then 12.14 will be the last Opera I have used until the original project actually goes open source. Otherwise I might not bother forking my very own chromium engine and building my very own browser and, while that will take time, sticking to old Opera installs as long as possible.