[dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to WebKit, you can thank Opera.

Martin Reid mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Thu Feb 14 03:08:17 CST 2013


Does WebKit support opening office documents on the client?

Martin

Sent from my iPad

On 14 Feb 2013, at 08:51, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Shamil:
> 
> I must say I am a little sad to see Opera finally forced into accepting the
> changing of the tide. They put up the good fight though.
> 
> I believe, in the new browsers of today exists some of the finest coding
> ever created. Considering that someone just lifted the V8 engine out of
> Chrome (Chromium) product, encapsulated it and made the worlds fastest web
> server (Node.js), speaks to just how optimized the code is. All of today's
> browsers are similarly perfected. 
> 
> IMHO, the browser will be the final OS...but I still like my desktop better.
> 
> Jim 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov
> Shamil
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 11:49 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] FYI: Moving to "nirvana": if Microsoft were to shift to
> WebKit, you can thank Opera.
> 
> 
> Hi All --
> 
> FYI: "Opera Sings The Final Song With Its Rendering Engine, Decides To Shift
> To WebKit"
> http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/13/opera-sings-the-final-song-with-its-renderi
> ng-engine-decides-to-shift-to-webkit/
> 
> -- Shamil
> _______________________________________________
> dba-Tech mailing list
> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> dba-Tech mailing list
> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com



More information about the dba-Tech mailing list