Opera Playground

This week, I went to Keio University, in Tokyo, to attend the SVG Open 2007, to help W3C/Keio, as Opera employee. Erik Dahlström, Chaals of OperaASA, and many other SVG guys came to Tokyo. Opera ASA participated it as one of the main sponsors. In the middle of week, we had Kestrel's first public alpha release, so we had to spare sleeping time to test it, after coming back from Keio Good sufferings.

Photo are up, grouped as "SVG Open 2007" in my PHOTO page.

At Opera booth, I could say thanks to Ruud Steltenpool, the author of "Playing SVG Darts", face to face That was also very good.

At the end of 4 days sessions, Doug Schepers of W3C announced the beta release of the SVG 1.2 Tiny Test Suite, and now you can see the SVG Tiny 1.2 Conformance Suite Implementation Status, though Beta 0.1, Kestrel's on the list there. And I think many of you have already seen the another list, by Jeff Schiller, at his CODE DREAD, which we displayed on the screen of LCD at our booth during SVG Open. Yes, Kestrel is better than Batik!

In the year 2000, we got "Elektra" for Opera 4 to 6, three years later, we got "Presto" for Opera 7 to 8, another three years later in 2006, we got Opera 9, whose rendering engine was to be still Presto, but there seems to be a new name, at least inside OperaASA. That's "Core 2", from Davis's blog entry for Dimension.

Mini 4 has been upgraded to the Kestrel codepath of Core-2, the same engine found in The Internet Channel for Wii

Though Merlin, Kestrel or Peregrine are code for browser inside the company, core 2 is a code name for the rendering engine, the heart of browsers. I suppose after three years' workings, the retirement, or big refinements of Presto engine is fit for the needs of market. Thanks Presto. It's time for the next generations!

This is not the first mention of core 2, for the open public. I've heard of/seen its name few weeks ago at the conference, which I blogged earlier here.

We already have it, core 2, for comparatively long time though