Opera+SkyFire
By glazou on Wednesday 27 February 2013, 19:12 - Computing - Permalink
There is something I didn't get about the new WebKit-based Opera for Android.. It's now clearer. So in normal browsing mode, the rendering engine is WebKit. But in "mini" mode, the rendering engine, server-side, is still Presto, right? I don't think the teams had enough time to move to a WebKit-based server farm.
A while ago, SkyFire was a Gecko-based solution. Fellow mozillian Alex Vincent worked for them on that and I contracted for them too. But SkyFire switched to WebKit two years ago and they're a server-side browsing solution. So SkyFire was acquired for that. Well not only for that, but that's certainly a major point.
Until full integration of SkyFire into Opera's servers is achieved, users should probably expect browsing differences switching between "normal" and "mini" mode...
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Au delà du mini, il y a aussi le mode Turbo qui est très utilisé, notamment sur Opera Mobile ou Desktop.
Sachant qu'ils fournissent déjà ce service au Yandex Browser, je suppose donc que ce service est Webkit ready.
Ça devrait permettre de faciliter la transition, au moins en attendant le rachat par Yandex...
The following page:
http://paulirish.com/2013/webkit-fo...
says that even Mini will switch to Webkit, quoting Bruce Lawson on Twitter:
http://twatlr.com/thread/3016039792...