"Your connection is not private"

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @paulverizzo

@paulverizzo said:

Didn't Opera also have a Gecko engine?

Nope, not that I can remember.

blackbird71

blackbird71 @paulverizzo

@paulverizzo said in "Your connection is not private":

I do remember web designers having to accommodate all the players.

The final effect of that, though, was that web designers quickly found accommodating all the different engine designs to be too costly or bothersome for them... so they increasingly began coding and testing their sites for just a 'select' few engine designs, with all others being deemed "unsupported" by their sites. This dumped the site compatibility effort totally onto the unsupported browser developers, forcing them alone to find workarounds, patches, or engine code changes to address a constant parade of user complaints that their browser wouldn't work on sites x, y, or z. And often, those fixes were only partly successful or caused instability in other areas of the browser. As the Internet evolved, so did the site code... so overlaid on the above was a continual progression of technical and protocol improvements that impacted site code and made it even more difficult for the minor browser players to keep up with sites that only assured their compatibility with a few engine types.

Naturally, in a self-fulfilling cycle, the browser brands garnering highest user market-share quickly became the only brands appearing on many website "supported" lists and so gained even more user share... but Opera never was one of those, lacking the resources to project itself into the public eye as much as could deeper-pocket outfits like Google, Microsoft, or even Mozilla. The result was Opera ASA's eventual decision to replace its Presto engine with the widely-compatible chromium engine. And here we are today...

paulverizzo

paulverizzo @blackbird71

@blackbird71 I remember the issues my brother and business partners had to make their site compatible across platforms.

So now, for all practical purposes it's chrome based and Sarafi, I guess. Which, the latter is a Job's rip off of open source webket, IIRC. Just like the Apple OS is a rip off of Berkeley Unix, can't recall what it was called.