Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Wednesday made a huge announcement to fork WebKit and build a new rendering engine called Blink. Opera, which only recently decided to replace its own Presto rendering engine for WebKit, has confirmed with TNW that it will be following suit. 'When we announced the move away from Presto, we announced that we are going with the Chromium package, and the forking and name change have little practical influence on the Opera browsers. So yes, your understanding is correct,' an Opera spokesperson told TNW. This will affect both desktop and mobile versions of Opera the spokesperson further confirmed."

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Bad move. Opera should have stuck with Presto

[kriston]

Bad move. Opera should have stuck with Presto. Their recent and now fatal decision completely removes the whole point of using Opera at all.