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Originally posted by walktalker
Opera cuts legacy code -- hums faster
Opera, the self-described "fastest browser on earth," has decided to jettison its legacy code in favor of something a little faster. The Oslo, Norway-based company is on the verge of releasing a trial, or beta, version of Opera 7, which will resemble its predecessor only in superficial ways. The rendering engine -- the heart of the browser which interprets code pulled down from Web servers -- has been rewritten from the ground up over the past 18 months. Dubbed Project Presto, after the musical tempo-character marking indicating speed and lightness, the rewritten browser was designed to make Opera both faster and more compatible with the Document Object Model (DOM), an emerging standard technology that lets scripts, like JavaScript, act on individual elements of a Web page.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-954561.html

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