Opera and Open Source, Insight Into The ‘Turbo’ Technology
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 04/24/2009 - 13:40
In this article we get to discuss Opera’s role as an innovator in the browser market as well as find out if Opera will release its code under the GPL and some technical bits about the ‘Turbo’ technology.
Recently I wrote an article about Opera 10 – which is currently in development – and got a lot of backlash from readers.
According to about 70 comments which were published, I downplayed Opera’s importance as a browser and as an innovator.
Thomas Ford, Communications Manager at Opera, contacted me after a day or so with some clarifications. We continued our conversation, and, as a result, I’ve got some interesting bits of information which I’m going to share with you.
T.F.: A lot of the comments raise different points, but I’d like to highlight a few that they didn’t. I won’t take issue with you saying there isn’t much new in the labs release. That’s fair. The labs release of Opera 10 with Turbo is essentially to showcase that technology only. It certainly isn’t a complete representation of Opera 10.
Also: New snapshot with automated crash reporting, and a more detailed changelog
Reflecting on Opera browser trends ? Opera mini and turbo ?
Opera mini is transcoding from webpage of xml to html then subdivision into more pages. Opera turbo depends strictly on data compression of webpage(up to xml and long files of jpeg).
The real problem lies in Opera derivation of income, which is google ads(doubleclick). Which is very slow because of link traffic. So, opera turbo is not faster and does not appear to be faster.
I would recommend a combination of using opera mini codes and data compression. The speed is usually gotten on the net by avoiding slow ad links. But slow links got more clicks and revenue income. So, using swap or virtual memory to store files of ads instead of download links will help opera to achieve both revenue goals and speed goals.
Webpages subdivided and ads inserted by data storage in virtual memory of webpage history is the way to go? Best of luck on best of breed software?
If you like this suggestion, please contribute to Tuxmachines.org. We are in the process of a membership drive. Give us some credit on Opera site as well, please?