Opera software announced this morning that it is dumping its homegrown Presto rendering engine in favor of the increasingly ubiquitous WebKit rendering engine. For all new products Opera will use ...

In a shocking move, Opera has announced that its arsenal of mobile, desktop, and embedded web browsers will transition from its in-house Presto rendering engine to WebKit, the rendering engine used by ...

Norwegian software company Opera has ditched Presto, the rendering engine that currently powers Opera web browser, in favour of WebKit. WebKit powers the Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers. That ...

Big news from Opera: not only has it reached an astonishing 300 million users, but it's dumping its own Presto engine and moving to WebKit instead. That means future Opera browsers will use the same ...

Opera Software today made a beta version of its new WebKit-based browser available to Android devices in the Google Play Store. Opera announced earlier this year plans to switch from its own ...

Opera is ditching its own Presto browser engine and embracing WebKit, leading critics to fret about a browser monoculture -- especially on mobile devices. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Norwegian browser developer Opera has announced that it is going to end the use of its own rendering engine, Presto. Over the course of 2013 the company will switch its browser products to use WebKit, ...

Opera Software has announced that it will move away from its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit, the software engine that powers the Chrome and Safari browsers. “It makes more sense to ...

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Web browser provider Opera has reached 300 million users and has announced plans to drop its own Presto rendering engine in favour of WebKit. It means that future updates to Opera's browser will use ...

Web engines are what take Web page content such as HTML files, and formatting instructions, for example Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and transform these into the page you see on your screen. They are ...

I'm waiting to see how many features Opera will have to drop because they needed Presto to function and Dave Hyatt may not like them in WebKit. Click to expand... It seems highly unlikely that a ...