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Opera Dragonfly

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justice:
actually i find opera is the best browser to develop on, as when i develop on firefox it screws up IE way more than opera, but when i'm on opera it looks fine on firefox and just slightly bad on IE.

Lashiec:
WOOHOO!! A debugging suite for the browser that wont see popularity until it opens itself to 3rd parties!
-Josh (April 24, 2008, 05:34 PM)
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I doubt that Opera would get popular overnight once it opens its API, Opera already had a time to become "popular" (several years actually), but Firefox beat it to it. Be glad that they make an agreement with Google, otherwise it would be in a OmniWeb-esque situation. The possibility of extensions is there though, and it may come in the future.

So, nontroppo gets the cookie, I guess :)

urlwolf:
Well, looks like FF is taking the opposite road: having too many possibly conflicting extensions gets you a buggy, slow experience. They seem to be taking more things into the core it seems, because the current barebones FF is... insipid.

Maybe they should both meet in some happy medium point.

nontroppo:
Link fest:

http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/2008/05/06/introducing-the-dragonfly
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-dragonfly-architecture/
http://www.opera.com/products/dragonfly/
http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/

You need a 9.5 beta 2 (and on OS X, a post 9.5 beta 2 weekly build).

First impressions? Looks and works fine, full DOM access and CSS analysis. Currently missing editable DOM/CSS, which is coming. Also no HTTP/AJAX logging yet (also coming). A single-window interface is also on the cards, but dual window works better on my dual-monitor setup at the moment...

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