Hallvord R. M. Steen

Dragonfly arriving

Tuesday, 6. May 2008, 16:29:54

Dragonfly blog has details and download links. dev.opera.com has technical details and tutorials.

Now, this is an alpha release. Some issues you may have to overlook gracefully include:

If you enable breaking on every script, the debugger will also break when Opera runs browser.js or user scripts - but no code will appear in the code pane! You will have to click "run" one or more times to get past your user scripts.
It only responds every second time you press [F10]..
Live CSS editing is missing..
..and so is HTTP logging and some other nice features that will arrive later.

That said, Dragonfly is already making itself useful in its present form. Have fun with it!

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Comments

shadowk # 6. May 2008, 17:45

I was afraid that opera would make Dragonfly a new window. I really wish i could somehow just put it into to a panel or something.

I might try to hack it into a panel non the less

deadHarlequin # 7. May 2008, 06:54

I am OT and please dont get mad, but you really should buy a 2nd monitor shadow... Makes you work much better on everything.

hallvors # 9. May 2008, 11:33

(BTW please use Dragonfly with 9.5 beta 2 and not with the latest weekly snapshot - seem to be some regressions in that one that make Dragonfly misbehave somewhat..)

Schalandra # 9. May 2008, 11:38

Where will the next Dragonfly release be announced? I have signed so many Dragonfly related topics, I get a little bit confused.

hallvors # 10. May 2008, 23:39

That's a good question and I'm not even sure. Of course the debugging functionality in Opera's core will hopefully improve with the regular version updates, but the server-based Dragonfly app itself might be "upgraded" silently without announcements?

Schalandra # 11. May 2008, 18:15

That's good to know. Takk skal du ha!
So I should check the list of fixed bugs to know what's done.

dstorey # 19. May 2008, 21:38

We are hoping to make a weekly build any time soon, and a second alpha in a few weeks (hopefully)

Schalandra # 22. May 2008, 22:46

Usually I'm not much into builds (nightly, weekly, every sunny day (great for Developers from Bergen I guess), etc.) but I want to help improving Dragonfly so I'll get those weeklies.