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Opera should have open sourced their old Presto code (browser and email client). The Opera 15 browser is based on Chromium. Now the sold to a Chinese company kn
by frik 11y ago
Opera should have open sourced their old Presto code (browser and email client). The Opera 15 browser is based on Chromium. Now the sold to a Chinese company known for adware/malware, that chance is gone. The old Opera was pretty good for its time, and a community could have formed around it.
Some former Opera devs are working on Vivaldi, a promising Chromium based browser that has an HTML5 based UI. Though, it's not open source.
- sgift 11y agoAs far as I remember they had too many dependencies that weren't open source friendly for that move. At least I think that was the reason given back then.
- frik 11y agoI doubt that is true. They ported the Opera browser to very exotic platforms, like Nintendo DS, Wii, and many other devices I never even heard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine) With multiplatform codebase, you try to keep the dependencies to a minimum or even rely on just C++ and the platform sdk.
- wmil 11y agoIt might have included a large amount of licensed code. They could edit and port it, but not relicense it.