Opera Picks Up Webkit Engine · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @01:50AM from the proprietary-software-dies dept.

New submitter nthitz writes "Opera has announced that they will be dropping their rendering engine Presto, in favor of Webkit. This knocks the number of major rendering engines down to three. Opera will also be adopting the Chromium V8 Javascript engine. The news coincides with their announcement of 300 million users. '300 million marks the first lap, but the race goes on,' says Lars Boilesen, CEO of Opera Software. 'On the final stretch up to 300 million users, we have experienced the fastest acceleration in user growth we have ever seen. Now, we are shifting into the next gear to claim a bigger piece of the pie in the smartphone market.'" They've already submitted patches to improve multi-column layouts even.

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Javascript?? Please, NO! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-13 02:02 · Score: 0, Funny

We're supposed to be dumping all things java. Can't they make this thing work in COBOL?
Re:Opera by MarkGriz · 2013-02-13 02:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Drama queen
Not Oprah.... OP-ER-A

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