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A web rendering monoculture may be a bad thing, but what would you do in Opera Software's position? Opera has less than 4% market share so companies very rarely
by Skoofoo 14y ago
A web rendering monoculture may be a bad thing, but what would you do in Opera Software's position? Opera has less than 4% market share so companies very rarely go through the trouble of supporting its quirks, resulting in a subpar web browsing experience that drives people to other web browsers. It's a vicious cycle, and switching to WebKit is Opera's best bet to break out of it and gain market share and influence.
- metajack 14y agoThis was a point that Brendan Eich made in "Why Mozilla Matters"[1]: "Mozilla is not Opera. If we were a more conventional business, without enough desktop browser-market share, we would probably have to do what Opera has done. But we’re not just a business, and our desktop share seems to be holding or possibly rising — due in part to the short-term wins we have been able to build on Gecko." I don't think people are blaming Opera; they are just frustrated at the loss of some diversity in the rendering engine space. At least we can expect some fresh injection of open standards support in the WebKit project from the Opera team, which should benefit all WebKit users. [1] https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters/ https://brendaneich.com/2013/02/why-mozilla-matters/