Presto

Kestrel

will be released by the Opera Desktop Team.

an updated Presto engine

Presto, the rendering engine first featured in Opera 7

Presto began as a two men project and ended up taking up to 60 people.

Elektra, the former engine used in Opera 6 (and earlier)

Presto was developed to be cross platform, on a far larger base than Gecko.

Windows Mobile phones, Symbian phones, the Nintendo DS and Wii, your desktop with Windows, Mac or Linux.

here is one core team working on the engine, for all platforms.

the best standard compliant engines

sometimes even too strict.

Kestrel will introduce an improved version of Presto

all the CSS3 selectors

a start on the upcoming ECMAScript 4

speed will be an important factor, if not to prove Apple wrong with their highly doubtful benchmarks.

Firefox uses Gecko

more compatible, but also hard to work with (ask Apple) and slower

Presto

Opera Software only a mere 18 months to create it,

Mozilla

spend up to four years of work on Gecko