This is a happy day to be a Opera user. Still in alpha stage, Opera Dragonfly is a promising tools similar to Firebug or Web Developer Add-on, both for Firefox. By the way, here’s an entire Opera Widget section dedicated to Web Developer category.

We Bleed Design’s homepage features an effect I’ve yet to see anywhere. Hint: Scroll down.

This is one of those articles that, upon its existence, will spark a new trend on web visual design. So go read it.

This news piece from Telegraph tells about an experimental website that would change its design (color, fonts, etc.) according to user’s behavior.

Here’s the announcement. What makes me glad the most from this post is this:

Finally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars.

So, it’s safe to say that we can just use this release for local development of future themes. Yay!

Don West nailed it:

Public criticism from your competitors is the best publicity you can get. When they point out their competitors’ weaknesses it ALWAYS causes people to find the weaknesses in their own products and services and investigate the competitors’ product. Many switch to the competitor.

The moral of the story is: Keep your mouth(and keyboard) shut, and make sure your product is better than theirs by a long shot. The market will decide who is best and score is kept by sales…or users in the case of OS software.

You can read the announcement here, or go straight to the download page this way.

Please note that installing the beta will overwrite your already installed IE (7, most likely), so you might want to think twice before doing it. There’s no standalone version / installation method available yet, but give it time. In the meanwhile, there are Virtual PC images with different version if IE available for free, so there’s an alternative.