What is Dragonfly?
Thursday, 12. June 2008, 17:58:10
You know Opera 9.5 has been relased. It has got a tool named "Dragonfly" in "tools - advanced - developer tools". What is it? For the other geeks out there it is an obvious redo of Firebug. For my other readers, it is a tool for "inspecting" the structure of the webpage you have loaded in Opera. What does it mean? Lets say you want to change the color of your blog title. You open Dragonfly, click on the title and it displays what line of code in the page corresponds to the "object" title, plus the CSS properties of that object. It shows you the hierarchy relations of the object and other objects in the page (it is the DOM structure) and does the same for its CSS properties. Once you have got these information you can edit your "user.css" file and change (almost) anything in your blog.
Dragonfly can be used to debug webpages at a more complex level but people who know what it means don't need explainations
Anyway, everybody ask me if you need help.
Dragonfly can be used to debug webpages at a more complex level but people who know what it means don't need explainations
Anyway, everybody ask me if you need help.
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By NoteMe, # 12. June 2008, 18:10:31
Corrected anyway.
It is just another kind of insect, in italian firefly is named "lucciola" and dragonfly is named "libellula".
On a side note "lucciola" is used also for a prostitute.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 12. June 2008, 19:25:18
Have you had the time to play around with Dragonfly for a bit? I tested it just for a few minutes, but I felt it wasn't as intuitive as Firebug was last time I tested it. I managed to "get lost" a couple of times not finding back. You can say that is easy to do in any advanced tool if you just click randomly to look around, but I can't say I did with Firebug. I had an easier time finding what I needed right away there than in Dragonfly for the first time.
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By NoteMe, # 12. June 2008, 21:02:06
But in my opinion it is true for Opera vs Firefox.
Firefox usability is way better for and Opera needs to be streamlined a bit.
Maybe it is a different approach, I guess Firefox was intended since the beginning as an opensource "powertool" for geeks, with a developing community behind, while Opera so far was intended more like a closed source "cool gadget" for hip people, with a community of plain users only, who at max can contribute with skins.
Dragonfly is breaking somehow the Opera tradition, since I guess 99% Opera's users don't know what it is for. It is a trying to make Opera more popular among developers but IMO the general feeling of Opera works against it.
By LorenzoCelsi, # 13. June 2008, 07:22:48