I know many of you are waiting for some new information on Opera Dragonfly. David Storey just posted an update to his blog, not really saying much about Opera Dragonfly itself, but rather a bit more about its upcoming launch.
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Q: What is Opera?
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A: -- Opera on your computer
-- Opera Mini on your phone
-- Opera Mobile on your phone
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And this “news” is so news worthy that it needs to be in my feed box? Please, if there’s something to say, say it but things like this are just a waste of bandwidth (or an attempt at marketing by annoyance)
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Dragonfly ~= Firebug
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Ahh, so it’s the name for developer tools. Sweet
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@Ben Buchanan, that’s not been confirmed yet!
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The Dragonfly page has some hints on it.
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unsubscribe then, bill. no one is forcing you to read this site. who are you to tell everyone what they should find interesting anyway?
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Looks like it is not tool like firebug…
Looks like it is separated tool => ?? may be public bug-tracking system?
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It is the API thinggy I know it is this for sure
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How would an API fix bugs?
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I’m placing my (current) bet on online developer tools. Opera already has some available on its developer site, so I’m guessing they could work anywhere if made correctly. The plus side of this developer suite is that there would be no installation, and every browser could be tested and developed in easily. There would be no reason to not test sites in Opera, or another browser. Of course there would still be the time to fix bugs, but that’s another story…
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you can’t test Opera rendering bugs in Firefox rendering engine.
in the same way you can’t use opera dragonfly (if it is dev tool) to fix other’ browsers bugs
each rendering engine requires its own set of tools
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bill: “Please, if there’s something to say, say it but things like this are just a waste of bandwidth ”
Yeah, two more feeds like this and the Internet will colapse…thanks for informing us Mr. Tubes…
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“you can’t test Opera rendering bugs in Firefox rendering engine…”
Exactly. That is why the tools could be provided with an online workspace, i.e. a person could get used to developing with them across different rendering engines. Bugs would be able to be tested through Dragonfly in each browser. This would benefit Opera because it’s name would be on the product, and it would get a boost in recognition.
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Why would Development tools have a picture of the Earth as the publicity? And in some of the articles it mentions the dragonfly rec. plane. Would suggest a google earth style app, but why that would play a big role in peoples lives I don’t know.
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“Why would Development tools have a picture of the Earth as the publicity?”
Just look on the Firefox logo…