Defunct browser engine
Presto was thebrowser engine of theOpera web browser from the release of Opera 7 on 28 January 2003, until the release of Opera 15 on 2 July 2013, at which time Opera switched to using theBlink engine that was originally created forChromium .[ 3] Presto was also used to power theOpera Mini andOpera Mobile browsers.
Presto is a dynamic engine.Web pages can be re-rendered completely or partially in response toDOM events . Its releases saw a number ofbug fixes and optimizations to improve the speed of theECMAScript (JavaScript ) engine. It is proprietary and only available as a part of the Opera browsers.
A succession of ECMAScript engines have been used with Opera. (For the origin of their names, seeCultural notes below.) Pre-Presto versions of Opera used the Linear A engine. Opera versions based on the Corefork of Presto,Opera 7.0 through 9.27, used the Linear B engine.[ 4] The Futhark engine is used in some versions on the Core 2 fork of Presto, namely Opera 9.5 to Opera 10.10.[ 5] When released it was the fastest engine around, but in 2008 a new generation of ECMAScript engines fromGoogle (V8 ),Mozilla (SpiderMonkey ), andApple (JavaScriptCore ) took one more step, introducing native code generation. This opened up for potential heavy computations on the client side and Futhark, though still fast and efficient, was unable to keep up.[original research? ]
In early 2009, Opera introduced the Carakan engine. It featured register-basedbytecode , native code generation, automatic object classification, and overall performance improvements.[ 6] [ 7] Early access in the Opera 10.50 pre-alpha showed that it is as fast as the fastest competitors, being the winner in 2 out of the 3 most usedbenchmarks .[ 8]
History and development [ edit ] Presto Version ECMAScript engine Browser code name Opera Browser Opera Mobile Other use New features pre Presto unnamed unnamed 3.0 The first version to support JavaScript[ 9] pre Presto Linear A Elektra/unnamed [ 10] [ note 1] 4.0 1.0 Linear B unnamed 7.0 a completely new rendering engine,Favicon support[ 11] 8.5 "Bolton" version: 1st completely free download version (ad-free toolbar) 2.0 Merlin 9.0 Internet Channel [ 12] Canvas,Acid2 Test: passed, Rich text editing, XSLT, and XPath 2.1 Futhark Kestrel 9.5 9.5[ 13] Nintendo DSi Browser SVG Tiny 1.2, SVG as CSS, SVG as <img>, Audio object2.1.1 9.6 Scope API ,[ 14] SVG asFavicon 2.2 Peregrine 9.7[ 15] 2.2.15 10.0 10.1 9.8[ 16] Acid3 test: 100/100, pixel-perfect, Web fonts, CSS Selectors API,RGBA &HSLA opacity,TLS 1.2.,[ 17] FPS in SVG, SVG fonts in HTML2.3 Opera Devices SDK 10 CSS3 : border-image, border-radius (rounded corners), box-shadow, transitions; HTML5: <audio> and <video> elements 2.4 10 CSS2.1: visibility:collapse; CSS3 : transforms; HTML5: <canvas> shadows, Web Database,Web Storage , window.btoa, and window.atob 2.5.24 Carakan Evenes 10.5 10.1 Opera Mini serverCSS3: multiple backgrounds; HTML5: <canvas> Text 2.6.30 10.6 WebM ; HTML5:AppCache ,Geolocation ,Web Workers [ 18] 2.7.62 Kjevik 11.0 11.0 Extensions ,WebSocket 2.8.131 Barracuda 11.1 11.1 Opera Mini server 4.27 WebP ,File API , CSS3 gradients (only for thebackground andbackground-image properties): -o-linear-gradient(), -o-repeating-linear-gradient(); Support for<color-stop> added.2.9.168 Swordfish 11.5 Session history management, classList (DOMTokenList) 2.9.201 11.50 for Android ECMAscript strict mode2.10.229 Tunny 11.6 11.6 HTML5 Parser, full support toCSS Gradients , Typed Arrays, CSS unit "rem"2.10.254 Wahoo 12.0 WebGL andhardware acceleration [ 19] 2.10.289 12.0 2.11.355 Marlin 12.1 for Android SPDY , CSS3 Flexbox[ 20] 2.12.388 12.10–12.18
^ Elektra was originally the codename of Opera 4.0, but later came to refer more generally to the layout engine used in versions 3.5 through 6.Presto-based applications [ edit ] OperaOpera 7 to 12Opera Mobile 9.5 to 12Opera Mini (continues to use Presto rendering on an intermediate server on keypad phones and as Extreme mode on Android devices) Nintendo Nokia 770 Browser (based on Opera)Sony Mylo COM-1's Browser (based on Opera)[ 24] The source code for version 12.15 was leaked toGitHub on February 11, 2016.[ 27] It remained unnoticed until January 12, 2017 and was taken down two days later in response to aDMCA request.[ 28] [ 29] Opera Software has confirmed the authenticity of the source code.[ 30]
It is currently available athttps://git.drk.sc/presto/presto .
The ECMAScript engines used with Opera have been named after ancient and traditional writing scripts, including undecipheredLinear A , Ancient GreekLinear B , RunicFuthark , andJavanese Carakan .[ 6]
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