The recently announced Creative Suite 3 (CS3) application by Adobe includes a built-in rendering engine of the Opera browser. Opera’s rendering engine is used by several components in the suite.
More details to come.
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Q: What is Opera?
A: Opera is one of the most powerful Web browsers around. A Web browser is the program that allows you to view Web pages. Opera is well known for innovation for PC browsers and bringing the full web to mobile phones and devices.
Q: Is Opera free?
A: Absolutely free.
Q: Why should I download a browser? Doesn't my computer already come with one for free?
A: It's about getting more out of the time you spend on the internet. Opera is designed to be much faster than these browsers and gives you powerful features that the default browser lacks. Default browsers like Internet Explorer are also more likely to be subjected to dangerous software such as viruses and spyware.
Q: Will Opera keep me safe from fraudulent websites and malicious hackers?
A: According to Secunia, a respected firm that tracks security in browsers, Opera has the best reputation and track record when it comes to browser security. Keeping our users safe from security vulnerabilities, fraudulent websites, and malicious hackers is a top priority for Opera. Opera is maintained by hundreds of engineers, developers and security experts who are constantly looking to make the browser even safer.
Q: Doesn't Opera copy all of their features from other browsers?
A: Absolutely not. In fact, many of the features that are popular in other browsers today were invented and pioneered by Opera a long time ago. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.
Q: Does Opera support extensions, such as those found in Firefox?
A: Much of the functionality provided through Firefox extensions is already built directly into Opera, so you don't have to download additional extensions in Opera. In addition, Opera is highly customizable and supports all standard plug-ins.
Q: Can I also use Opera on my mobile phone?
A: Yes. And your Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS or almost any connected device and mobile phones. Opera Mobile oftens comes preinstalled from the manufacturers, but if it doesn't you can install Opera Mini which runs on nearly all phones.
Q: This all sounds great, so how do I download Opera?
A: -- Opera on your computer
-- Opera Mini on your phone
-- Opera Mobile on your phone
-- or learn more about Opera at www.opera.com
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I wanted to beta test that, but (if I remember right) they required a valid licence for CS2 in order to to beta test CS3…
Anyway, this is great news. Hopefully this will help more designers make standards compliant websites, and the web will be a little more open.
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GT500, that’s correct. You need a valid CS2 license in order to download a beta version of CS3.
Btw, CS2 also has Opera’s rendering engine.
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Yes, I remember the announcements from back whenever the deal was made with Adobe. That was a long time ago, but it’s still one of the best things to happen to Opera (aside from being the only browser for one of the worlds most popular gaming consoles).
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Well I didn’t need a CS2 licence to beta test CS3, but then I know the Dreamweaver product manager
Opera is used in the Device Central for showing how pages will render on mobile, similar to how it is used in Small Screen mode in the desktop browser. DC is quite cool as it has information about a lot of mobile models that it integrates into the preview.
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Yea, it’s all about connections. If I knew people at Adobe, the I could probably get ahold of their betas as well.
Great, now you’ve got me curious, and I’m dying to see it in action…
I’m green with envy…
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Waitin’ for the details.
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Waiting for the details as well
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I never saw an announcement about Dreamweaver is using Opera’s rendering engine - and I know quite a lot.
I read about it elsewhere today and did some research:
I used my customized search engine (Operaized Search) to find information about it in Wikipedia: that DreamWeaver uses Opera’s rendering engine since MX / Opera7:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(layout_engine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_layout_engines
A general Google search (”g Opera Dreamweaver rendering”) revealed not much more information, especially nothing official just some people guessing or telling they heard about it (in Dreamweaver related forums or posts, especially on Mac). By the way: I didn’t like Yahoos search results too much (after I got really terrible results with Yahoo’s mobile / local search for German cities).
Somehow it looks like Opera signed a non-disclosure agreement about not publishing official information - or maybe the information is just too old to be found by search engines.
This information should be spread over the world as it is just another proof of Opera’s power: wow, even Dreamweaver uses it and already that long! And it is IMHO quite irrelevant if it is only for SSR in this case.
Hype Opera!