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'Mini' a totally different beast to a normal browser, in order to minimise data usage. When you request a page in opera mini, that request is sent to Opera's s
by systoll 11y ago
'Mini' a totally different beast to a normal browser, in order to minimise data usage.
When you request a page in opera mini, that request is sent to Opera's servers. The webpage is rendered on their server [using their rendering engine], and a totally different (OBML) file is sent to your browser, to represent the end result.
'Mini' never sees HTML, Javascript or CSS -- those are handled on the server. This allows the browser to use dramatically less bandwidth... but creates some major limitations.
Opera still makes 'normal' browsers -- and at least in the iOS version, the 'Mini' mode can be switched off [making it render the same as any webkit browser.]
- digi_owl 11y ago> When you request a page in opera mini, that request is sent to Opera's servers. The webpage is rendered on their server [using their rendering engine], and a totally different (OBML) file is sent to your browser, to represent the end result. I Think they either have plans to, or have already transitioned to using webkit/blink as the backend for Mini. Never mind that they seem to be doing their level best to kill of the presto-era browsers. This December they shut down their bookmark sync service (Opera Link) after having introduced a new one for their webkit/blink based browsers. It sometimes seems like the web is heading for yet another monoculture. Marginally better than the IE era as this time the engine is open source, but a monoculture non the less.