Whoo-hoo! Web Developer Toolbar for Opera!!
I just found this:
http://operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar
I haven't installed yet - will let you know when you do. Now there are no more downdsides to using the great and powerful O (as far as I'm concerned, anyway!)
Megan posted this at 18:04 — 30th June 2006.
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Alright, this how it works - the Web Developer Menu is a drop-down added to the main program bar with HTML 4.01, CSS 2.1, Dom/JS and Unicode drop-downs. THese point to the W3 specs for HTML/CSS, Mozilla reference for the JS stuff, and some other site I've never heard of for the unicode stuff. So, just a set of quick bookmarks to go to the specifications when you need a reference.
The Web Developer toolbar replaces the view menu (the one that pops down from the address bar). It includes a pop-downs for Display (same built-in stylesheets, plus some extra options and the ability to resize the page), Images (same as before, but with a few extra options), Page Info (DOM inspector, that sort of thing), Utilities (various internal and external tools), Validate (includes accessibility checkers & more), Specs (includes what's in the Web Developer menu and more), Page Source (includes ability to view generated source and external scripts), a ID switch (Opera, Moz, IE as usual), a quick jump to Firefox and IE, and a Pagerank tool that doesn't work very well but it at least there.
Best of all, you can customize which buttons are there. I forgot to mention that there was a drop-down for forms as well, which I took out.
Ooh, the display menu also includes an option to change the font. Don't like the crap Times New Roman on that site? Want to see what your design looks like in Georgia? No probs, change it!
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Busy posted this at 21:38 — 30th June 2006.
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Heres one for you Megan, is there anyway to change Opera's preferences so when you right click and open in new page the focus remains on the page you clicked from, rather than going to the new page? Is so damn annoying that, reminds me of IE opening new windows all the time.
An example, opening new posts from the 'new posts' link (up in the twf navigation - top left for folks who don't know of it)
Megan posted this at 16:01 — 1st July 2006.
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You can right-click and open in background window, is that what you wanted to do?
Busy posted this at 22:56 — 1st July 2006.
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Like firefox does, right click open in new tab or in operas terms, open in new page - not a new window and keeping the focus on the original page.
It's only a small thing but big enough to stop me from converting over
JeevesBond posted this at 22:38 — 2nd July 2006.
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Heyup Busy, you giving Opera a go?
All you need to do is right-click on the link and select "Open in background tab" instead of "Open in new tab" It's the next item down. I like both and use them interchangeably without even thinking about it. Not sure if there's a way to make it behave like that by default.
I think it's a reasonable assumption that when opening a link you're going to want to view the page immediately.
*** EDIT ***
Just had a quick rummage in opera:config and couldn't find anything to change the default behavior.
On a more successful note: Middle-clicking on a link opens the tab in the background.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 05:07 — 3rd July 2006.
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Firefox too
Busy posted this at 10:35 — 3rd July 2006.
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I've had Opera for yonks, went from IE to Opera but then found Firefox.
I think the ads put me off Opera, then the dom problem (this is going back a while), and Firefox has grown on me. I do use opera to test sites and some sites that have no image save that actually works on FF I can use Opera to grab them.
The web developer bar in ff was also a good pulling tool, but as opera now has something similar ...
Acadia posted this at 03:57 — 3rd July 2006.
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Is Opera a personal preference thing, or is it yet another thing I should know about but don't?
Megan posted this at 20:46 — 3rd July 2006.
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Opera is a web browser. It has many more features built-in than any other browser available. Check this thread for some more info about what Opera has to offer. It's really more of a power user's browser. You should check it out
Some of us here are really big Opera fans so you'll find that we talk about it a lot.
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DaveyBoy posted this at 13:03 — 4th July 2006.
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Aye i think i might
Nah to each their own and everything, I use it for testing and that's all
Just you and Jeeves huh
JeevesBond posted this at 12:13 — 4th July 2006.
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It certainly is something you should know about!
Whether you choose it as your browser or not you should definately install it on your PC and use it for testing. It works on Linux, OS X and that other OS I forget the name of. It's also, by far, the best browser for a mobile phone or PDA.
In the words of Abhishek Reddy:
(Although I think he borrowed that from Clive Anderson)
Anyway, it's great, and we can't stop ranting about it. Am worried that at some point DaveyBoy is going to go mad if we carry on!
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Megan posted this at 14:41 — 4th July 2006.
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Jeeves - have you noticed what it adds to right-click? Awesome! Under Edit Site Preferences there are some Web Developer options and Advanced Options. So you don't even have to make that toolbar visible, it's all on right click!
Actually, I think some of the advanced options aren't even in the toolbar. They have Find Page Owner via whois (nice), backward links via google, view in split screen mode (also nice) and a bunch of other stuff. Bug me not! I was looking for that last week but couldn't remember what it was called.
I SO love this! Need a heart smiley here
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DaveyBoy posted this at 15:24 — 4th July 2006.
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What you should really be asking is why you can't access the advanced stuff from the toolbar
Heh.
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