Opera Software Company Launches First Fully Open Project

According to the information published in the official Opera Software blog , the Norwegian company launched the first project, which fully complies with the principles of developing and distributing free software. Opera Dragon’s web development toolkit is a hardware-independent cross-platform JavaScript debugging suite, validating and editing CSS and DOM, and finding errors in the code of web applications for desktop computers and for mobile devices through the use of the original protocol developed by Opera Software. Scope. BSD selected as license.

It should be noted that Opera Dragonfly was originally conceived as a free software product and since the first public release in 2008 it was also distributed under a free license, but full specifications with the Opera Dragonfly code were impossible without the specifications and sources of the Scope protocol. By now, all the work on the preparation of the necessary documentation has been completed, and the source code of the increasingly popular development toolkit has been published on the pages of the Bitbucket web service based on the Mercurial version control system. In addition, developers from Opera Software have also prepared additional software tools to simplify the creation of products based on Dragonfly - the dragonkeeper proxy server that allows you to translate STP (Scope Transport Protocol) to HTTP, and the multilingual code generator hob , which allows you to work with .proto files (Google Protocol Buffers).

At the moment, the third alpha version of Opera Dragonfly is available, which you can try to work with directly in Opera browser version 9.5 or higher.