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Opera Dragonfly Goes Open Source

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:57:00 +0000

One of the Opera Dragonfly developers, David Storey, has recently announced that Opera’s debugging tool has gone open-source and can already be viewed at the following BitBucket page.

As company has never launched a true open source project before, there will be a learning curve.

It was also said, that current Opera Dragonfly development is focused on JavaScript debugger improvements.

Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks for news tip.

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Opera Dragonfly. An Interview with David Storey

Vygantas Lipskas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:18:45 +0000

CSS Dzone recently published an interview with David Storey from Opera Software. Feel free to check it. Storey was probably interviewed long time ago (although published on 2008/07/08 – 5:45pm) as one of the questions are:

With the Opera browser being in it’s second beta cycle for the Kestrel release and Dragonfly only having entered Alpha, can we as developers expect a GA version of Dragonfly to accompany the GA release of Kestrel?

Opera Dragonfly Hits the Streets

Vygantas Lipskas — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:45:31 +0000

After a lot of waiting, Opera Dragonfly Alpha, Firebug competitor is finally released. You can try it by downloading Opera 9.5 Beta 2 (after installation is completed, go to Tools > Advanced > Developer Tools).

How is it different from Firebug? First of all, you won’t ever have to update it. It acts like a web application. Another interesting Opera Dragonfly feature is an ability to debug your phone or even a TV. By the way, Opera Dragonfly is released on an open source license.

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Other Opera Dragonfly features includes: JavaScript debugger, DOM inspector, improved error console and DOM debugging.

The upcoming Opera Dragonfly release will also add CSS, JavaScript and DOM editing as well as many other interesting things.

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Visit Opera Dragonfly Home Page.

Overall, Opera Dragonfly team did a great job so far and I’m looking forward to hear from them (and their competitors) soon. Product looks really promising and competition is always a good thing. What about you? Have you tried it already?

Update: It looks like Opera Dragonfly article was removed from Wikipedia?

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Opera Dragonfly, 10 Days Remaining

Vygantas Lipskas — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:30:27 +0000

Opera Dragonfly… The big secret was finally revealed. As it was expected, Opera Dragonfly is developer tools. Firefox had Firebug for a long time so it’s not a big surprise that Opera decided to create something like that as well… As David Storey said: “Opera has been lacking real developer tools far too long”. Alpha version will be released on May 6th, 2008. There aren’t many known details yet, we’re waiting.

Opera Dragonfly Update

Vygantas Lipskas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:52:26 +0000

More news about Opera Dragonfly… It looks like the web page was updated (hidden comment is now removed as well). New Opera Dragonfly web page now offers an opportunity to subscribe into Opera’s products mailing list, got some “sneaky” stuff as well as the following text:

“A fast-flying long-bodied predatory insect of the order Odonata, suborder Anisoptera
Valued by humans for their ability to spot and hunt down harmful bugs from great distances”

What about sneaky text? They’re using some random hidden text in the top left corner. By the way, invisible text is really a bad idea. It’s also called “Spam” and Google Quality Guidelines suggest you to “Avoid hidden text or hidden links”. Your web page could be banned from search engine results pages by the way….

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Opera Dragonfly, No News for You

Vygantas Lipskas — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:14:34 +0000

Some time ago David Storey wrote an article on his blog about “a mysterious project” called “Opera Dragonfly”. Although he said that “We’ll likely have more to say about it at SxSW in Austin Texas.”, we haven’t heard anything yet (at least I haven’t). What about you? Looks like they’ve just decided not to release any more details yet…

Opera Dragonfly Home Page

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Opera Dragonfly? Update? We Know Your Little Secret

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:58:08 +0000

I think this wasn’t included right after Opera Dragonfly announce (although not really remember). From source:

“it surged forth with speed and grace, devouring all before it. The landscape left behind it was perfect, calm, free of defect. Such a gift with powers unfortold…”

Oh well, all those words like “The landscape (aka web page source) left behind it was perfect, calm, free of defect (coder changed anything?). Such a gift with powers unfortold… Looks like it will be a really great tool. Here you go, Firebug alternative on its way.

Opera Dragonfly page.

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Thanks to Mancho for telling about source update.