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I'm not sure that's a fair comparison though, Presto didn't support HTML as thoroughly and it has since dropped out of the race entirely. We can't be piling mo

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison though, Presto didn't support HTML as thoroughly and it has since dropped out of the race entirely. We can't be piling more and more high-level crap onto the standard and expect Moore's law to keep up with it.

webmobdev 8y ago
As far as I remember, Opera with its own rendering engine used to be one of the most web standards compliant browsers. That said, my point stands - I was pointing out how browsers like Firefox and Chrome are still bloated softwares compared to early Opera (pre Blink, Presto versions). Them "dropping out of the race" is irrelevant to that aspect.
kirion25 8y ago
It's actually the opposite, Opera (Presto) was stricter in its adherence to standards. It was the first/second (depending on OS) to pass the acid 2 tests, and constantly was among the top scorers. That said, there were often compatibility problems on various websites, because they favored IE (which wasn't standards compliant), and rarely if ever tested on Opera.