Is Facebook going to buy Opera, make its own browser?

This story that appeared on the Internet over the weekend on sites like The LA Times (link below) and others concerns me.

To date – the programmers of Facebook have not invented anything. What they are really good at is taking established technologies (php, sql, jquery) and applying them to an application.

Like a painter of landscapes. They take tubes of oil paint and apply them to a blank canvas to create a wonderful, inspiring picture.

The painter of the wonderful scene did not weave the canvas, stretch it over a frame they made, applied paints they created with brushes they crafted.  And that’s fine, the final product is what is important.

If Facebook is to buy Opera they are going to have to dive deeper into the nuts-n-bolts of actual programming. They will more closely have to pay attention to the standards of W3, operating systems, guidelines of OWASP and more.

I’m not saying that they can’t do it, I am saying that it isn’t a match to their core capabilities they have demonstrated thus far.

It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

Is Facebook going to buy Opera, make its own browser? - latimes.com