Opera Dragonfly is a new web developer tool from Norwegian company Opera, best known for the web browser with the same name. The project Dragonfly was first spilled back in January of this year, but its exact nature was not revealed until early May when the first alpha release was made available to the public. Since then a number of builds have been made available and it has now reached the second Alpha stage.
Opera Dragonfly has been in development for more than two years and Opera has put extensive research into its new web developer tool, e.g. through interviews with leading developers. They’ve also put a lot of emphasis on to be able to debug web applications on remote devices.
The second Alpha stage introduces experimental support for two of the most requested features; Support for editing and a single window mode. So far there is only support for CSS editing. Alpha 2 also adds command line auto-complete, a debug menu, as well as many bug and stability fixes.
After a well-earned vacation, the lead developers will go on to work on Alpha 3, but until then you head over to Opera.com and try out Dragonfly Alpha 2 RC.
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