[WEB4LIB] RE: Opera 7.0 released

[Andrew Mutch]

We've dealt with this same issue with K-Meleon. Sometimes "tricking" the site with
a different user agent string will let you get past their crude browser checking
scripts. However, I think the bigger issue that Thomas touched on was the sites
that use Javascript that only Internet Explorer recognizes. Even if you fool the
site to let you in, the Gecko engine (for
Mozilla/Netscape/Phoenix/Chimera/K-Meleon/Galeon/etc.) doesn't know how to handle
that script because it is non-standard. Unfortunately, some web sites don't want to
be bothered writing to standards when IE will let them do such fun things as
resetting your home page that other browsers ignore.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

"Steven C. Perkins" wrote:

> I haven't done it, but Opera allows you to change the id code sent to
> servers.  You can have it id as IE or NS and that may allow you to view
> sites you can not otherwise get to.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven C. Perkins
>
> At 06:14 AM 1/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >At 06:27 AM 1/30/2003, Ian Winship wrote:
> >
> > > > For all you browser fans, Opera 7.0 has been officially
> > > > released.
> > >
> > >I like Opera and use it routinely, but 7.0 still doesn't get over my big
> > >problem - sites that are designed only for IE or Netscape.
> > >Often there are features I don't know exist, as I can't see them with Opera,
> > >because of Javascript problems (and having 'Report Javascript errors' on is
> > >a nuisance and doesn't really tell me anything intelligible ) or services I
> > >can't login to because the authentication doesn't support Opera.
> > >
> > >Maybe one day?
>
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