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Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools by ComodoHacker on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:10AM (#13221081)
>the firefox devtools team has plans/ideas that the devtools could just used like a normal Web App (loaded from a server)

Someone from the old Opera team must have joined them, no less!

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Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools by nachtigall on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:04PM (#13222839)
I don't understand. Can you elaborate? Have there been previous plan like this by old Opera?
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Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools by gsnedders on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @02:51PM (#13223330)
Dragonfly[0], Presto's old dev tools, was essentially a web app (and, IIRC, although cached was loaded as if any other web app), though it had access to some APIs normal websites did not, to be able to communicate with the browser through the Scope protocol[1].

[0]: https://github.com/operasoftware/dragonfly

[1]: https://operasoftware.github.io/scope-interface/

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Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools by frik on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @12:41AM (#13227053)
Safari/Webkit DevTools (a fork also in Chome) is a web app as well and older.
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Re:Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools by fetbaffe on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @04:22AM (#13227823)
I miss Dragonfly. One of the best.
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