What is Opera Dragonfly?
Published February 25th, 2008 11:41 AM EST By Daniel Goldman<tease>
Our Chief Web Opener David Story blogged about Opera Dragonfly.
“So what exactly is Opera Dragonfly?
I won’t say quite yet, but I do think that, in my opinion, it is the most important project we have on going at the moment, and probably since I’ve been at the company. It won’t directly affect everybody, but will hopefully become invaluable for those that it does.
We’ll likely have more to say about it at SxSW in Austin Texas.”
Hmm… I wonder what Opera Dragonfly is.
Nah, just kidding… Of course I know. One of the benefits of working here at Opera is playing around with all these cool new things before everyone else. 
I’ve been waiting for Opera Dragonfly for a long long time.
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Opera Dragonfly
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It’s probably the develepor tools we’ve been promised. You’ve been talking about it a lot lately. Plus, Dragonfly sounds like Firebug, sort of.
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Do dragonflies eat firebugs?
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That does scream dev tools to me. Aside from 9.5, I can’t think of antyhign else with much of a profile that’s been mentioned recently, and of course, they won’t directly affect everyone. And yeah, that name does sound a bit too similar
I have my fingers crossed. If it’s no dev tools related, it had better be seriously awesome!
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Developer Tools? ;D
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I bet it’s the dev tools we’ve all been waiting.
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Anytyhing related to bugs?
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Nice graphic. It’s a giant bug catching dragonfly swooping over the world…or one got into a satellite and is meandering over the cameras.
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Ooooo! I can’t wait!…
But then again, if it IS the dev tools, then it won’t matter to me much… Still, I will be happy for Opera if it is the dev tools, nonetheless…
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The “blogged” link results in a 404.
Here’s the working URL: http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/opera-dragonfly.
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Grin, thanks for catching that.
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Probably something for mobile phones. That’s what I’m understanding from the “won’t affect everyone” comment.
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Daniel, you’re such a teaser :-p
We used to have a slogan saying “Opera - fly the web”, I think my new work mail signature should be “Opera - dragonfly the web”.
By the way, don’t tell anyone I told you but “the other next big thing” will prove that rebellious dragonflies remain united. There are interesting months ahead for Opera watchers.
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Oooh, nice image! We’re really intrigued.
Maybe could it be… Opera’s new pet?
My bet is for developers tools (as already said) or maybe a new and revolutionary feature in the suite.
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…that will promptly be copied by other vendors
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Something like Google Earth?
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Perhaps, its not dev tools. Chris Mills, Developer Relations Manager, said that the first beta would be released in the 2nd half of 2008. I can’t imagine the first beta coming out then and still going final in 2008. Based on his previous post, the functionality will still be incomplete then. Maybe this is finally some insight into the 2007 recap of “We made 2 major milestones for some secret projects”.
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Maybe its a normal working autofill.
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Why would Opera announce developer tools at a media/entertainment conference. Sounds like this could be some sort of media delivery platform.
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I can’t remember seeing Opera Watch writing anything about Opera working together with Red Bend on the new mobile platform that can update it self. Maybe …
- ØØ -
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Øyvind Ø, I don’t know what they do, but they’re listed on our mobile partners page.
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Maybe its an operatingsystem based on FreBSD with a opera browser to install on any device.
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I bet for the Developer Tools aswell, though Qasim made a good point.
(Though most logical would be it’s something to do with my website :P)
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Is the new thing listed in the 5 things [you]’d like to see ?
If so I think the API thinggy. But we will wait once again
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I’ve noticed that Kestrel registers the .WGT file extension under Windows as type “Opera Widget”.
If Dragonfly was dev tools, it might be nice to put an “Edit” command there to maybe open Widget files in some kind of debugging mode.
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mmm…
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HTML comment from the source code of the Dragonfly page:
“…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…”
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And directly from the source of dragonfly.opera.com
…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…
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I do hope it is developer tools. As I don’t use Opera Mini, it would have no effect on me if this is what the [not affecting everyone] meant. Developer tools would be immensely helpful to me.
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Maybe it is an in built Website Authoring Platform, that can be used to create standard compliant pages.