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> ... only that there’s been more than a decade of massive improvements which is not reflected in your comments ... Oh ok. I see the confusion - I was speaking

> ... only that there’s been more than a decade of massive improvements which is not reflected in your comments ... Oh ok. I see the confusion - I was speaking specifically about Opera (Presto engine) versions. Not the current Opera Chromium clone. And the point I was trying to make is that it was a much, much better product than its competitors. And if it had survived, with the original team still working on it, it still would be better than Firefox / Gecko and Chrome / Blink of today.

acdha 6y ago
I was also talking about Presto. It was good at the time in some areas but that’s like the guys who say their classic car is unmatched ignoring that everything on the lot is safer, lower maintenance, and less polluting. People switched because Presto wasn’t perfect (I had plenty of big reports) and it was falling behind with each release as Mozilla and Google really hit their strides.
- webmobdev 6y ago
  > I was also talking about Presto. It was good at the time in some areas but that’s like the guys who say their classic car is unmatched ... I was talking about Presto in comparison with browser engines of its period. As for people switching to others because "Presto wasn't perfect" - obviously, even an Opera fan like me did too, because the project was abandoned and started showing its age! My point was that it was a much better engineered project than its competitor of the same period and if its development had continued with the same philosophy, it would still be one. When I say Opera Presto was better, I do mean better than Gecko, Trident, Webkit of that period, not better than the current modern versions of these browser engine.