Opera Dragonfly

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.

Opera Dragonfly alpha 3, update 1Opera Dragonfly alpha 4 snapshot

Comments

Chas4 # 19. February 2009, 16:25

Great loading icon

fearphage # 19. February 2009, 16:31

Good to see we're on to the next phases here!

CSS errors in the blogs css:

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Lex1 # 19. February 2009, 16:47

«Scroll into View on first Spotlight» not translated on Russian.

You can track progress of this by using builds of Opera 10.

Only latest build. Dragonfly non usable in previous builds.

kyleabaker # 19. February 2009, 22:12

Originally posted by dstorey:

automatically detecting the active tab are now working in this branch of Opera Dragonfly.

I noticed this fixed a day or two ago! Glad to see the changes!

Currently the alpha-4 version in Opera 10 is lacking the ability to change the tab you wish to debug. For now I assume we are all forced to either close and reopen on the correct tab or just use the developer tools externally. I'm sure it's a known issue, just wanted to make sure it's not forgotten.

Thanks for the link to the change-log for alpha-3 btw!

fearphage # 20. February 2009, 09:11

Originally posted by kyleabaker:

Currently the alpha-4 version in Opera 10 is lacking the ability to change the tab you wish to debug.

+1, @staff: is this known or is a formal bug report required?

fearphage # 26. February 2009, 11:38

Well I've filed the bug since no one responded. DFL-439

kyleabaker # 26. February 2009, 21:03

@fearphage
+1 for filing it. I wasn't sure either.

shoust # 8. March 2009, 02:14

Its now possible to change the tab you want debugged. Near the detach button is the tabs title that you are debugging on, click that and you get "Pin debug context" which allow you to pin it on selected tabs only.

However, this way, seems to mean that we cannot select the side panel web pages or widgets to debug anymore, can I suggest having a side arrow to select the other pages we can debug?

fearphage # 8. March 2009, 02:44

This is moving away from dragonfly being used on a per-tab basis. Is that a feature we can look forward to?

pwong # 13. March 2009, 01:12

I wish dragonfly has an option to wrap long lines in the script command line.

FataL # 15. April 2009, 17:28

Why Dragonfly development is stalled?
IMO, in its current state it is far from perfection.

dstorey # 19. April 2009, 10:05

Hi FataL,

It has not stalled, we are just busy working on the Presto 2.3 and Presto 2.4 versions of Opera Dragonfly. We need the new capabilities added to the Scope module in these versions of our rendering engine to add support for things like the Network Inspector, improve performance and so on.

shoust # 19. April 2009, 19:39

Originally posted by dstorey:

It has not stalled, we are just busy working on the Presto 2.3 and Presto 2.4 versions of Opera Dragonfly. We need the new capabilities added to the Scope module in these versions of our rendering engine to add support for things like the Network Inspector, improve performance and so on.

We'll be waiting a while then, not even a beta of 10 has arrived yet, although these later versions of opera dragonfly seem to be for versions post 10 according to what we know so far.

dstorey # 20. April 2009, 12:40

Yes, it is most likely that further improvements for Opera Dragonfly will be for Opera 10 and beyond. If you test Opera Dragonfly in Opera 10 you'll notice it is a lot better than what it is in Opera 9.x.

fearphage # 21. April 2009, 19:01

Originally posted by dstorey:

Network Inspector

Here is an article about standardizing the exported data from network inspection. Perhaps it should be considered.

tudsta # 2. June 2009, 15:40

Opera Dragonfly video on YUI Theater:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/06/01/video-mccathienevile-dragonfly/

Charles McCathieNevile presents a summary about the alpha version of Opera Dragonfly. He outlines the benefits of Dragonfly's "Scope".