Archive: March 2012

Latest stable release with recent enhancements

By Patrick H. Laukepatrickhlauke. Friday, March 16, 2012 1:14:53 PM

Today's release on the stable branch of Opera Dragonfly includes many of the recent enhancements and fixes from our experimental builds.

Apart from a boatload of small tweaks and bug fixes, some of the top new features and additions include:

  • CSS shorthands in the Style Inspector, which removes a lot of the redundancy of having all expanded and default styles being listed A set of CSS rules shown in the style panel as a shorthand
  • JavaScript runtime errors shown directly as a tooltip in the Script panel, rather than just in the Error panel A JavaScript runtime error shown directly in the script's source code as an error tooltip
  • More dynamic JavaScript value inspection with a powerful tooltip that now also allows for function evaluation Function evaluation showing the result in the tooltip
  • Improved script selection dropdown, with filtering and improved keyboard support Script selection dropdown
  • The style panel now also allows you to use your preferred color format (Hex, RGB or HSL), which can be changed in Settings → Documents → Styles Changing the preferred color format in Settings → Documents → Styles

These features have been in our experimental builds for a while now, so we're very pleased to now unleash them on our stable release branch. As ever, we welcome our users' feedback and suggestions. Enjoy!

15 comments

Next builds

New features are added to the experimental branch as soon as they're ready. Once tested, they move to the cutting-edge branch as a release candidate. Unless any problems arise, they are then promoted to the stable branch.

To switch to these builds, enter the relevant URL in opera:config#DeveloperTools, save the configuration change and (re-)open Opera Dragonfly.

Useful resources

Source code

Bug reports / feature requests