operaによる秘密プロジェクトdragonfly

David Storeyのブログで示唆されているoperaによる秘密プロジェクトdragonfly。dragonflyは一体どんなものなのかに関していろいろな憶測が出ている。ひとつにはアドビのAIRやmozillaのプリズムのようなリッチ・インターネット・アプリケーションではないかとも、またfirefoxのアドオンであるfirebugのようなものではないかといった見方もある。firebugは他のブラウザにはない大きな強みであるからopera版のfirebugが出てきてもまったく不思議はない。

Opera's David Storey, who lists his job title as "Chief Web Opener", posted an intriguing entry on his blog where he hints at a supersecret project in the works, codenamed Dragonfly: I'm going to speculate that Dragonfly is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform in the mold of Adobe AIR or Mozilla Prism. Considering Opera's well-documented devotion to web standards, the product (if I'm right) will likely enable users to run standard web applications in their own operating system process, rather than offering its own markup and programming language like AIR or Microsoft's Silverlight. How it will differentiate itself from Prism, which has similar goals, is anyone's guess at this point. [...] it seems darn near certain to be correct in retrospect. Firebug is a big deal for Mozilla because it runs only in Firefox and helps differentiate it from other browsers. I've even heard web developers comment that they prefer some other browser for normal use but switch to Firefox when developing so they can use Firebug.

http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/2008/02/25/opera-employee-hints-at-secret-dragonfly-project/