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Terrible news. This means basically giving up on standards-based compatibility. Not bad news for Opera - maybe good news for the browser - but an ominous sign

• supercoder 14y ago
  Whatever Opera do doesnt cause us to give up anything.
  • Millennium 14y ago
    No, but it encourages other developers to do so, which will encourage other browser makers to do what Opera did. This is a massive step back for real standards as protocols, toward the bad old days of fake "standards" as implementations.
• lukifer 14y ago
  Opera was a minor force in the ecosystem. The day to start worrying is if/when Mozilla switches to WebKit. (I prefer WebKit browsers personally, but I think monoculture is a bad thing long-term.)