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Opera Dragonfly alpha 3, update 2

By David Storey. Thursday, 19. February 2009, 15:58:32

[UPDATE] Added Bulgarian, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish and Ukrainian, which I accidently missed from the list.

We have just released a further update to the alpha 3 branch of Opera Dragonfly. This is mainly a bug fix release, with numerous stability enhancements. Check out the change logs for full details of the included fixes.

The main noteworthy fix for this release is the localisation of Opera Dragonfly into 37 different languages. A big thank you should go out to everyone that helped us with these translations. The included localisations include:

bg: Bulgarian
cs: Czech
da: Danish
de: German
el: Greek
en: English
es-ES: Spanish (Spain)
es-LA: Spanish (Latin America)
et: Estonian
fi: Finnish
fr: French
fr-CA: French Canadian
fy: Friesian
hi: Hindi
hr: Croatian
hu: Hungarian
id: Indonesian
it: Italian
ja: Japanese
ka: Georgian
ko: Korean
lt: Lithuanian
mk: Macedonian
nb: Norwegian bokmål
nl: Dutch
nn: Norwegian nynork
pl: Polish
pt: Portuguese
pt-BR: Portuguese (Brazilian)
ru: Russian
sv: Swedish
ta: Tamil
te: Telugu
tr: Turkish
uk: Ukrainian
zh-cn: Simplified Chinese
zh-tw: Traditional Chinese

You can change the UI language of Opera Dragonfly by clicking the settings icon (lower right hand corner), clicking the general expander (the text is now clickable as well as the arrow icon), and select the language from the drop down list.

This release is scheduled to be the last release on the Scope protocol 3 branch, which is for Opera Presto 2.1 based browsers, such as Opera 9.6. Full focus will now be on Scope protocol 4 based releases for Opera Presto 2.2, and the upcoming Opera Dragonfly alpha 4 release. You can track progress of this by using builds of Opera 10. Much requested features such as automatically detecting the active tab are now working in the Scope 4 branch of Opera Dragonfly.

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The latest weekly, now with more lingo

By David Storey. Thursday, 21. August 2008, 16:29:36

localisation, Opera Dragonfly, localization

We’ve just put the latest build of Opera Dragonfly on the weekly branch. New for this release is the infrastructure for localisation. We have plans to release Opera Dragonfly in a number of languages, and this release is focused on testing the infrastructure we’ve put in place. It is supplied with test localisations in Japanese and German. These localisations are examples and not the finalised text for those languages. Opera Dragonfly will load the required language file, depending on the language of your browser.

After this release we are focusing on testing the features added to the new version of the Scope protocol, which will be included in Core-2.2. We need to make sure these work and there are no major bugs before Core-2.2 goes into code freeze. As such there will be no weeklies for a while, until that work has been carried out. After this we can start working on the rest of the features planned for alpha 3, including DOM editing.

The next version of Scope should improve the user experience considerably as Opera Dragonfly will be able to detect the currently focused tab or window, which means there will be less steps to start up. We hope to also allow the user to select an element n the page and have Opera Dragonfly go straight to that element in the DOM inspector. We will also have the basics of the HTTP inspector.

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