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My guess is that they are only using webkit on iOS devices where they are unable to use their own rendering engine. I can't see them throwing away Presto.

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Opera Mini in iOS does the rendering in Opera servers and does not use webkit.

Most websites look way different in Opera Mini in iOS compared with Safari or Chrome for iOS (which uses UIWebView's).

Edit: I just thought maybe you meant Opera Mobile (not Mini) who is not out for iOS yet I think

I was under the impression that Opera Mini iOS uses the Opera servers to transmogrify pages into a simpler form, but that UIWebView is still used to present this simpler form.

It isn't. It uses a compact Opera-developed engine which interprets the binary markup language coming from the Opera Mini servers.

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