Opera Developer News - 300 million users and move to WebKit
On the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine. It's built using the open-source Chromium browser as one of its components. Of course, a browser is much more than just a renderer and a JS engine, so this is primarily an "under the hood" change. Consumers will initially notice better site compatibilty, especially with mobile-facing sites - many of which have only been tested in WebKit browsers. The first product will be for Smartphones, which we'll demonstrate at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the
What the influencers are saying
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Paul Neave
RT @badass_js: Wow, Opera is switching its rendering engine to WebKit and its JS engine to V8. Strange times. http://t.co/vytkZnqP
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Martin Wittemann
RT @MoritzGiessmann: Opera is switching to webkit and v8. That is big news! http://t.co/Ly0MgZMZ
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Scott Hanselman
Wow. RT @html5: Opera browser switching to WebKit & V8 http://t.co/GLzkouUw
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Nathan Smith
Nice. Opera is switching to WebKit and V8 JS engine (same as Chrome)… http://t.co/nRdwzVvy — One less thing to debug! :)
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PJ Onori
Wow, Opera moves to WebKit. http://t.co/cxBb8juS Hint, hint Microsoft...
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Alex Russell
RT @brucel: For clarity: Opera will use Chromium, with our own UI layers. So WebKit + V8 JS engine. See http://t.co/DJc7dbh3
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Aaron Heckmann
Opera gives up and becomes Chrome http://t.co/5Vxmx4z8
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michael
And across the world web developers move Opera higher-up on the "supported browsers" list http://t.co/xkCXC3Q4
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sgruhier
Opera Developer News - 300 million users and move to WebKit http://t.co/603MFmV6
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Christian Heilmann
Opera's devrel team explanations about the move to webkit http://t.co/vFdMYQvI - TL;DR: build to standards, not much changes.
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Peter-Paul Koch
Have to think about Opera's move to WebKit. http://t.co/tlc1esl6 Didn't expect it; not sure what to think of it.
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Caolan McMahon
Opera switches to rendering engine to WebKit and JS to V8 http://t.co/7uK13nN3
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Tobias Bu
Opera switches to webkit! http://t.co/UYFfUocp I don't know if its good or bad...
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kangax
Wow... RT @mathias: Opera will switch to WebKit for all their products (not just on iOS/Android as reported earlier): http://t.co/NnMXCvPb
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Paul Irish
RT @brucel: For clarity: Opera will use Chromium, with our own UI layers. So WebKit + V8 JS engine. See http://t.co/DJc7dbh3
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devongovett
RT @badass_js: Wow, Opera is switching its rendering engine to WebKit and its JS engine to V8. Strange times. http://t.co/vytkZnqP
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Kyle
RT @robertnyman: @getify @brucel "The window.opera object will not exist in future versions of Opera" - http://t.co/7sDbDLEw
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Jon Gjengset
RT @ODevRel: 300 million users and move to WebKit http://t.co/dkpfufWq
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John Athayde
RT @brucel: For clarity: Opera will use Chromium, with our own UI layers. So WebKit + V8 JS engine. See http://t.co/DJc7dbh3
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Tomomi ✿ Imura
"Opera Developer News- 300 million users and move to WebKit" http://t.co/oSnp086j //I guess devs'd be happy but I prefer browser diversity
