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"Fastest Browser On Earth" Cuts Crud

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-faster-go-faster-go dept.

gabec writes "The guys at Opera have been rewriting their rendering engine over the past 18 months, tossing out legacy code and making the browser more DOM compliant with the intention of making the self-proclaimed "fastest browser on earth" even faster. They claim to have succeeded, according to this article on ZDNet.. Fun stuff.. ;)"

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  1. Re:The truth by unicron · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Actually, I.E. will always be the best browser. Say what you will about Microsoft, they make a damn fine internet browser.

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  2. Re:This is a bit silly by MisterBlister · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Agreed. How many people use computers where the rendering speed of any modern browser is the bottleneck rather than the network connection that is downloading the data to display? I'd guess its pretty close to absolute zero.

    I'm all for making the browser more standards-compliant, but 'fastest browser on earth' is a completely useless claim.

  3. Re:The truth by unicron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1: Actually, I.E. has the superior rendering engine.

    2: We have a tab system as well, runs along a bar on the bottom of our screen.

    3: I generally don't visit that many gay pr0n sites, so annoying pop-ups aren't really an issue. If I ever do face them, I know how to kill windows with a simple keystroke. Don't confuse "tricks for lazy people" with "superior features".

    4: What, you're go and stop buttons blow mine out the water? 99% of my commands are keystrokes followed by the enter key.

    5: Never really noticed a problem, even after browsing for hours on end.

    6: I'll give you that one, the mail sucks, never chatted using I.E., and their news reader blows, just because it's hard to download files and it's a pain getting it to list every post in a group.

    Good job chief, you keep at it.

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  4. This is going to sound like a troll, but by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    "Our old engine wasn't that bad," Tetzchner said.

    Sorry, it is. OK, so it has decent CSS support (Well, CSS1 anyway). However, its DOM support is at least as bad Netscape4's CSS support is. DOM today is what CSS was back in 1998, somewhat used, but not to the extent that it could be, mainly because of legacy browsers.

    Also, they compare rewriting the rendering engine to writing Mozilla. Hello, they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser. Mozilla.org produced a platform. Take a look at Komodo if you don't believe me. Sorry, but it's apples and oranges.

    And this "fastest browser on earth" crap is getting annoying. Anybody can create a fast browser, but both Mozilla and IE can do far more than Opera can, and I can't help but wonder how DOM compliant this new Opera will be. Will it be up to Mozilla's or even IE's capabilities? I doubt it to be honest.