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szalansky on Feb 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Opera moves to WebKit

At last. Opera used to be my favorite browser, thanks to their sophisticated UI. But I gave it up when HTML5 started coming in. I believe it had problems with Javascripts too.

Is mobile Opera very different from the desktop one? I see many Android users using it and being happy.

pornel on Feb 13, 2013 [–]

The great irony is that Opera has started the HTML5 effort:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/2005-09-01/

back then it was called Web Forms 2 and Web Applications 1.0.

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