May 22, 2013 by Henk-Jan Buist
May 22, 2013 by Henk-Jan Buist
News – The Opera browser on Android is officially a Chromium-clone become now the app has been removed from beta. The browser in Google Play is with immediate effect the Chromium version. Opera makes its own layout engine off.
first WebKit version of Opera is out of beta and available for Android 2.3 or higher. Opera previously announced its own browser development to release this year and to join in the Chromium project. This project moves from later this year, the WebKit browser engine for Blink tapped by Google. Then Opera will also use.
This layout engineOpera Chrome for Android looks like in example the address bar. The Norwegian browser retains its own identity and functions familiar from Opera Mobile. As it uses a data-saving feature for sites with poor network coverage and take favorites still an important place.
Google deletes WebKit
Google was one of the biggest contributors to WebKit and started his own fork. The reason given for this is that the sharing of code would no longer be worthwhile. Moreover, it would be faster by deleting Chrome. The old layout engine In addition, WebKit has become a trademark of Apple.
Google’s fork Blink later this year should be put into use in different browsers. Apple is now deleted Google code from WebKit. Because Chromium no longer needs to be supported, thus redundant code from WebKit be removed, make working at Apple developers of the engine.
own base replaced
The Opera own layout engine Presto is now for the first time officially replaced by WebKit. This increases the diversity of browser engines even further. The most common layout engines are Trident (Microsoft), WebKit (best known for Chrome and Safari) and Gecko (known from Mozilla’s Firefox).
Opera Presto engine found its own is not good enough for iOS and Android, and therefore considered a move to an alternative. Later, the Norwegian browser manufacturer announced that Presto would let go completely and would hook up on the open source Chromium project. This means that WebKit (later Blink) is used, Google’s V8 Javascript engine and the browser has the Chromium code base with matching codecs.
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