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http://tinyurl.com/a7crglu



Opera has called it a day. After almost two decades in the browser business,
Opera has officially quit.

The developer announced that it is going to adopt the WebKit engine for all
of its browsers on mobile platforms, something not particularly surprising,
but also that it is stopping development of its desktop browser and will
start supporting Chromium, the open source version of Chrome.

Basically, this means that Opera will no longer be developing its own HTML
layout engine, Presto, and that it will slap an Opera label on Chromium and
call that its desktop browser.

There aren't many details, but what is there is enough to know what comes
next. Opera as we've known it is dead; the move may turn out to be a great
one for the company, but it won't be the same company.

Without its own engine or even its own desktop browser, Opera is now just
another company that rebrands Chromium and calls it its own browser, on par
with Yandex which makes its own Chrome clone, for example.

In the mobile space, it will be just another company that takes the WebKit
engine and slaps some UI elements on top of it. There are now only four major
browser makers in the world, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Apple, and just
three layout engines, Trident, Gecko and WebKit.



簡譯：

      將近 20 年的奮鬥，Opera 認輸了！ 桌面與行動平台都將放棄 Presto 核心，
      此後會基於 Chromium 開發。

      未來瀏覽器三國鼎立 Trident, Gecko 和 WebKit.


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