https://omid.dev/tags/webkit/Recent content in WebKit on Omid FarhangHugo -- 0.152.2en-US2025 Omid Farhang | All rights reserved.Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:38:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2013/02/13/opera-switches-to-webkit-and-chromium/Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:38:00 +0000https://omid.dev/2013/02/13/opera-switches-to-webkit-and-chromium/<p>After many years of dealing with site compatibility issues, Opera found <a href="http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2013/02/13/webkit">the solution</a>: it will switch from its proprietary rendering engine (Presto) to WebKit and <a href="http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit">will be powered by Chrome&rsquo;s open source version, Chromium</a>.</p> <p>“Presto is a great little engine. It&rsquo;s small, fast, flexible and standards compliant while at the same time handling real-world web sites. It has allowed us to port Opera to just about any platform you can imagine. (…) It was always a goal to be compatible with the real web while also supporting and promoting open standards. That turns out to be a bit of a challenge when you are faced with a web that is not as open as one might have wanted. Add to that the fact that it is constantly changing and that you don&rsquo;t get site compatibility for free (which some browsers are fortunate enough to do), and it ends up taking up a lot of resources – resources that could have been spent on innovation and polish instead,” <a href="http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2013/02/13/webkit">explains an Opera employee</a>.</p>