Edit web pages in real time in Opera

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Edit web pages in real time in Opera

by Chris Gilmer Aug 28th 2006

Opera 9 has a neat little feature that lets users, specifically webmasters, play with live website code, and then run it in the cache. This Opera browser option allows users to load a webpage, view and edit the source code, and click the "Reload from cache" button to check out the changes made to the site. The site then runs from the user's cache, playing back any changes made in the code. This is a nice little option if you like tinkering with code to try and find out techniques, tips and tricks of other developers.

[via GoogleSystem]

Tags: browser, designer, developer, opera, tools, view source, ViewSource, webmaster

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

The Joshler said 4:49PM on 8-28-2006

Anyone know of a Firefox extension that does this? Thanks.

lakiolen said 4:51PM on 8-28-2006

OmniWeb also has the same ability, albeit for Mac OS X only.

Chris Gilmer said 4:51PM on 8-28-2006

Mozilla Platypus
http://platypus.mozdev.org/

kbiel said 6:04PM on 8-28-2006

In answer to #1
Web Developer
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/

Additionally, it has a live CSS editing option also.

Beni said 2:59PM on 8-30-2006

Oh man. That's awesome. ...if not a little frightening for webmasters who don't like to share :p

Matt said 4:03PM on 8-30-2006

This is amazing! Why didn't I think of this? Oh right I'm not a software developer.

Charles said 7:05PM on 8-30-2006

Alright, but if you use this to edit a page and suddenly your computer reboots, you loose your work.

Ivan Minic said 9:20AM on 8-31-2006

Opera rules :)

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