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Opera moved to webkit in 2012 (2013?) and then to Blink soon after googles announcement.

• jason_slack 10y ago
  does this mean they are using webkit, chrome and mozilla under the hood for rendering pages? All 3? What is the benefit? If a page is designed for Chrome then Opera could render it as intended and not how Webkit might render it, which could be wrong?
  • chucky 10y ago
    No. Their rendering engine is pure Blink. All browsers' user agent's contain mentions of more or less every browser that ever existed for historical compatibility reasons.
  • 0x4a42 10y ago
    Safari uses Webkit (a fork of KHTML), Opera and Chrome use Blink (a fork of Webkit), Firefox uses Gecko. Except on iOS where all browsers are forced to use a crippled version of Webkit.
  • mathw 10y ago
    No, it means that they're using Blink. User agents are confusing things now. Everyone says they're Mozilla, and have done since pretty much the dawn of the web (Netscape, IE, everyone). WebKit claims to be Gecko. Etc. Why? Because many websites used to look at your user agent and serve you a different version of the page to try and give you the best experience. So new browsers, or improved browsers, started pretending to be other browsers so that they could get these versions of the pages and not the one for their release from three years ago. Eventually you ended up with a mess because everyone claims to be everyone else. Which is why friends don't let friends sniff for user agents.
• iopq 10y ago
  They moved to Blink the day of the announcement. They knew it was coming before it was announced.