Amazon's New Silk Redefines Browser Tech

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @02:15PM from the look-differently dept.

angry tapir writes "While the Kindle Fire tablet consumed much of the focus at Amazon's launch event Wednesday in New York, the company also showed off a bit of potentially radical software technology as well, the new browser for the Fire, called Silk. Silk is different from other browsers because it can be configured to let Amazon's cloud service do much of the work assembling complex Web pages. The result is that users may experience much faster load times for Web pages, compared to other mobile devices, according to the company."

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Prior Art - Opera Turbo by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-28 14:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

How is this any different from Opera Turbo, which has been out for quite a while now?
Opera Mini by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-28 14:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

Did Amazon just invent Opera Mini?
Opera? by nine-times · 2011-09-28 14:32 · Score: 1, Redundant

Didn't Opera do something similar, where they rendered the web pages on their own server and then passed it to their mobile browsers in an optimized form?