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

 Hi Jim --

Yes, it's always sad when so good technologies as Opera HTML rendering/JavaScript interpretation engines have to "die": if only there could be a way for all the mainstream browsers to follow the same HTML/CSS/JavaScript standards and still compete effectively and "innovate independently"...

Sorry, I have to disagree :) - *browsers will not be the final OS* - not that I like that much my (Windows) desktop but the current mobile development shows the trend IMHO: the browsers will be just an option, it could happen they (browsers based applications) will "cover" the (very) large part of the applications market but native mobile/desktop applications will always exists/be ahead just because common standards will not be able to go ahead of "never ending (native/mobile) applications innovation race"...

-- Shamil

Четверг, 14 февраля 2013, 0:50 -08:00 от "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>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 
>
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>Shamil
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>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