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Great news! Glad to see Opera adopting webkit, since many mobile html5 frameworks use webkit features that Opera Mini/Mobile wasn't able to use. That way we c
by snarkyturtle 14y ago
Great news! Glad to see Opera adopting webkit, since many mobile html5 frameworks use webkit features that Opera Mini/Mobile wasn't able to use. That way we can get full compatibility with the mobile web and get to use Opera Link and Opera Turbo.
- jarek 14y agoI'm not sure Turbo would be available on the Webkit version. It seems like a feature quite deeply integrated into the engine.
- mtgx 14y agoIsn't enabling Turbo just saying "now the content will run through our servers and be compressed"? Amazon's Silk browser can switch between the 2 modes, too, as far as I know, although it uses the server compression by default.
- tobylane 14y agoThe website is sent to Opera's servers to be compressed into opera binary markup language, not gzipped html. Probably presto-specific.
- prumek 14y agoIf Presto can convert pages to the binary markup language, why can't WebKit?
- jarek 14y agoIt can, of course, if you put in the work to make it do so. Presto already has had that work done. I'm not sure doing the work for Webkit would be worth the reward, especially considering they wouldn't be in control of iOS Webkit (controlled exclusively by Apple) including their changes. But that's just idle guesswork based on a subjective view of costs and benefits involved.
- gavinlynch 14y agoI agree with the general sentiment, although it is worth pointing out that the idea of a unified "mobile webkit" is a fallacy: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_web.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_...