Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Dec 2005 21:54 UTC
Representatives at browser maker Opera denied that the company is in the process of being sold to either Google or Microsoft, and said the Norwegian firm has no other acquisition plans in the works. Opera markets an eponymous desktop Web browser as well as several mobile browser technologies. A number of published reports appeared early Friday that implied that industry giants Microsoft and Google could be engaged in a bidding war over Opera. The company called those stories mere rumors.
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[/i]*Have access to the the best, most lightweight, feature-complete rendering engine?[/i]
I partially agree with the feature-complete rendering engine part. It is the most standard-compliant rendering engine, but not the most full-featured. If you use it you'll find it quite limited, for instance regarding Active X, or also it can't have an embedded WYSIWYG editor such as the fckeditor (http://www.fckeditor.net/) due to technical limitations (check the compatibility). Remember haw we had to struggle to force Opera to be compatible with Gmail?
So if they used Opera instead of IE, obviously many things would break because Opera almost doesn't have any IE proprietary specifications implemented.