We chat with former CEO and Co-founder of Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner about the future of the mobile, web standards and his latest brainchild – the Vivaldi web browser.
Between the community-led model and the employee-led model of development, which approach has Vivaldi chosen and why?
Jon: We’re using Chromium as the base for Vivaldi. A number of our users have found out that this is web code, and you can actually go in and edit it. This is because some of them believe that features are not being implemented fast enough so they go in and implement those features themselves. There are plenty of threads in our forums about people doing that.
I think if you look at most of the open source projects, they don’t work the way you’d expect. Take Chromium for example. We may do a change to Chromium because we’re using it and it would be very good for us if that change went into the core. But that doesn’t happen. We could send it over to Google and Google might include it immediately because it was a critical bug fix. But if we propose a change that benefits us but doesn’t benefit them in any shape or form, they wouldn’t do it.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 2016 من Digit.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 2016 من Digit.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
Dll Errors Are Here To Haunt Us Again
Broken HDDs can break our hearts, so can other gadget related problems that we explore this month.
Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+
From the Note Edge to the Galaxy S8, Samsung seems to have settled on a functionality for its curved screen - to make its phones look good despite obvious repercussions.
Information Security
The world needs more cyber security professionals right now, and you could be the one that saves the day!
Customized 3D Printed Phone Cover
3D Print your own custom designed smartphone cover
Search
When was the last time you wanted some information and it wasn’t within your reach? Well, barring nuclear codes and Death Star plans, search engines have brought information literally at your fingertips.
Fabricating The Future
Forget smart watches and augmented reality glasses, the clothes that you wear are the wearables of the future
Money At Your Finger Tips
From digital wallets to NFC payments, Money has gone digital and now it's set to invade you - literally
It's [A]l[I]ve
If 2016 was the year of VR, then 2017 is the year of AI.
Are Smartwatches here to stay?
We look at state of wearables, two years on from the Moto 360’s debut.
Introduction to AR development tools
To get started with Augmented Reality development these are the tools you need to know about.