Re:Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
by pornel on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @06:26PM
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Netcaptor that invented tabbed browsing didn't have a custom new rendering engine either.
It looks like this browser is a continuation of classic Opera, which pioneered a lot of stuff we take for granted today:
- Speed Dial — the start page you get in every browser these days
- mail client with filtered views, later known as "folders like in GMail"
- page modifications with user-supplied JS and CSS (later known as Greasemonkey and basis for browser extensions, which ironically Opera didn't have for a long time)
- address bar history based on full-text search of visited pages
- bookmark sync across devices
- pages rendered by a proxy server (like Amazon Silk browser)
And they've tried plenty of things that didn't catch on: built-in Torrent client, built-in web server (like node.js) and Widgets.
It looks like this browser is a continuation of classic Opera, which pioneered a lot of stuff we take for granted today:
- Speed Dial — the start page you get in every browser these days
- mail client with filtered views, later known as "folders like in GMail"
- page modifications with user-supplied JS and CSS (later known as Greasemonkey and basis for browser extensions, which ironically Opera didn't have for a long time)
- address bar history based on full-text search of visited pages
- bookmark sync across devices
- pages rendered by a proxy server (like Amazon Silk browser)
And they've tried plenty of things that didn't catch on: built-in Torrent client, built-in web server (like node.js) and Widgets.
There's plenty of UI R&D to be done.