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I would love Opera's Presto engine to be open sourced. A few days ago I've read taht there are extreme memory optimizations so that it could be run on centraliz
by merlinscholz 6y ago
I would love Opera's Presto engine to be open sourced. A few days ago I've read taht there are extreme memory optimizations so that it could be run on centralized servers for their Opera Mini variant. Also we really need more browser engines.
- zinekeller 6y agoToo late, probably (open-sourcing, not the threat of monoculture). The owners of Opera AS (a Chinese VC as of now) aren't probably interested in that. It would be much more probable that Microsoft will release IE under MIT over open-sourcing Presto.
- ksec 6y agoI remember they couldn't do it because they had some proprietary code inside Presto and had contract obligation with many embedded system still using the Opera's Presto rendering engine. May be another 5 years.
- miscoinceptions 6y agoPresto is already open source if you know where to look. But you didn't hear that from me ;)
- merlinscholz 6y agoWhile the source is... Accessible... You sadly cannot incorporate it into your own open source browser, which is the main problem. Maybe I'll tinker around with the "open source" version someday