Opera Dragonfly alpha almost ready
7 CommentsPublished April 24th, 2008 4:20 PM EDT By David Storey
It is finally official. Opera Dragonfly is the name for Opera’s forthcoming developer tools. The alpha will be released on the 6th of May. The application won’t be feature complete, but shows a good foundation of what Opera Dragonfly will become, and the vision of the app. Even in its current form, it is very useful for debugging web sites, and certainly far better than what we have had previously.
It’s important that web developers and designers that will find a use for Opera Dragonfly leave feedback once the alpha is released. This will let us know what functionality is important, and what improvements we need to add. We are committed to making Opera Dragonfly a first class developer tool, that fits the needs of real world web developers.
This is the first project I’ll be the lead of the launch, so it should be an interesting and busy couple of weeks. Things are looking very positive so far. I’m looking forward to seeing developers use Opera Dragonfly and seeing how easier it makes debugging issues in Opera. The easier this process is the better it is for web developers, Opera, and especially our users who will benefit from better web site compatibility in the long run if Opera Dragonfly is successful.
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good i wait dragonfly
que legal vou esperar o dragonfly
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Funny thing, I just upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Firefox 3 broke the Firebug plugin and now I read this. Must be a sign.
Of course I only used it for debugging browser incompatibilities. Apart from that it’s Opera forever!
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musiKk, the Firebug 1.1 beta at getfirebug.com works with Firefox 3. I haven’t had any problems with it myself.
That said, I’m thrilled that Opera will soon have its own development tools. Some tools are essentially browser-independent, but there are going to be differences in implementations, and a browser-specific tool can make it much easier to explain the “Browser X displays it this way, but browser Y displays it that way!” problem by showing exactly what that browser sees. (It’s not easy to debug an IE-specific problem with Firebug, for instance!)
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I’ve used Firebug in the past, but I can’t wait for Dragonfly!
Dragonfly will be successful (IMO) if it is initially feature rich, mapped out well (or well for an alpha release), and is remotely stable. I think everyone will expect it to have it’s quirks (being an alpha and all), but the initial impression will be the seller or deal closer. It has to look and feel promising.
I’m sure I won’t have to worry about that since it’s still an Opera product! Thanks David.
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Was the hype and teasers really needed for a developer tool? I am totally glad to have such a s tool on Opera. But really, why the tease?
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They were excited about it. They probably put a lot of effort into creating it and they wanted people to get as excited as them about it. People have been requesting Developer Tools for a while, so for something to finally come out is a pretty big event for them.
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The alpha of Dragonfly is now available for download: http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly.