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Do you know why Chrome and Firefox are not on iOS? Because Apple only allows Safari Webkit. V8, Gecko or any other rendering or JS engines are not allowed. Ope

by revorad 14y ago

Do you know why Chrome and Firefox are not on iOS? Because Apple only allows Safari Webkit. V8, Gecko or any other rendering or JS engines are not allowed. Opera Mini is based on Webkit and does any custom processing in the cloud, which is far from ideal for users. Why doesn't Apple allow third-party browsers? Because they might soil the oh-so-beautiful garden of apps that Apple is carefully curating. Imported roses are strictly prohibited, because - gasp - the thorns might prick the little soft fingers of these lovely obedient children. Trillion dollar cash piles don't come about by playing nice with competitors.

robin_reala 14y ago
Not entirely true. Opera has its own rendering and JS engines (nothing to do with Webkit). Opera Mobile (which has both client-side) is banned from the app store, but Opera Mini (which does the JS server-side, and renders a compressed format delivered by the server on the client) is OK.
- revorad 14y ago
  Yes, we're talking about mobile here. I thought that was obvious, but still made it clear when I said iOS, not OS X.
  - Tloewald 14y ago
    Go to iPhone app store. Search for Opera.
RandallBrown 14y ago
Opera Mini on iOS does all of it's rendering in the cloud and passes compressed images to the phone. I'm pretty sure they use their own rendering engine, not WebKit.