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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by snarkyturtle on Friday January 18, 2013 @03:04PM (#5080671)
Great news! Glad to see Opera adopting webkit, since many mobile html5 frameworks use webkit features that Opera Mini/Mobile wasn't able to use. That way we can get full compatibility with the mobile web and get to use Opera Link and Opera Turbo.
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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by gavinlynch on Friday January 18, 2013 @05:49PM (#5081547)
I agree with the general sentiment, although it is worth pointing out that the idea of a unified "mobile webkit" is a fallacy: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/10/there_is_no_...
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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by jarek on Friday January 18, 2013 @04:34PM (#5081198)
I'm not sure Turbo would be available on the Webkit version. It seems like a feature quite deeply integrated into the engine.
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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by mtgx on Friday January 18, 2013 @05:20PM (#5081403)
Isn't enabling Turbo just saying "now the content will run through our servers and be compressed"? Amazon's Silk browser can switch between the 2 modes, too, as far as I know, although it uses the server compression by default.
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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by tobylane on Friday January 18, 2013 @05:51PM (#5081555)
The website is sent to Opera's servers to be compressed into opera binary markup language, not gzipped html. Probably presto-specific.
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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by prumek on Friday January 18, 2013 @11:17PM (#5082615)
If Presto can convert pages to the binary markup language, why can't WebKit?
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Re:Opera Ice – New Smartphone Browser from Opera Software by jarek on Saturday January 19, 2013 @01:49AM (#5082836)
It can, of course, if you put in the work to make it do so. Presto already has had that work done. I'm not sure doing the work for Webkit would be worth the reward, especially considering they wouldn't be in control of iOS Webkit (controlled exclusively by Apple) including their changes. But that's just idle guesswork based on a subjective view of costs and benefits involved.
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