9/12/2023 0 Comments Evernote safari![]() ![]() ![]() Vivaldi aims to differentiate around a few key areas. Opera has survived as well innovating in embedded platforms and mobile with its Opera Mini browser that uses proxy servers and compression to speed up performance on less powerful devices. With its newest version, the team has picked up market share and branched into mobile and smart TV platforms. ![]() Is there room for yet another browser in the market? Mozilla, despite losing some ground of late to the OS browsers, has proven that there has always been room for an independent choice. ![]() While browsers are critically important, because of great standards support it’s becoming harder to differentiate the feature set. Compare that to mobile applications, where apps are clearly tied to iOS, Android, Windows, or Blackberry. Thankfully, browsers have become increasingly better at supporting standards like HTML5 making it easier to build sites and web apps that work consistently across browsers. The browser is also a very important piece of tying an end user closer into the platform. Today it is a fundamental piece of every operating system platform - that’s the reason Microsoft, Google, and Apple all have integrated browsers in their desktop and mobile offerings. Von Tetzchner has said that the purpose of Vivaldi is to build a browser for sophisticated users and to bring back the community, which was a key differentiator for the Opera browser platform.Ĭompeting in the browser market is no mean feat. Jon Von Tetzchner was a co-founder of Opera, and his new company, Vivaldi Technologies, has just launched a technical preview (Opens in a new window) of its new browser. Opera was one of the original internet browser companies, and the only one that is still alive - and independent - from that era. ![]()
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