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zobzu on Feb 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit

I don't think it has to do with servo, which is really just a research project.

Gecko is a lot harder to embed (so yes, legacy is and issue here), and webkit is compatible with more sites (as sites are now often "designed for webkit" and use specific webkit-only extensions)

Makes the choice very easy and logical IMO. Not really good for the web, but maybe not a bad idea for Opera. Time will tell.

masklinn on Feb 13, 2013 [–]

> Gecko is a lot harder to embed (so yes, legacy is and issue here)

Gecko embedding is also unsupported since May 2011: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.embeddin...

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