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Getting Opera to Work with Hotmail?

Posted by Cliff on from the web-pages-that-work-with-selective-browsers dept.

theComposer asks: "I use Opera as my browser of choice. Ever since Microsoft changed it's Hotmail interface, I've been having "issues". If I set Opera to identify itself as Opera, Hotmail won't let me look at my mail. I get a screen that tells me to upgrade to the lastest Internet Explorer or Netscape. However, if I set Opera to identify itself as IE, I can log in just fine. Once in (with Opera), I can't check an email and delete it or move to another folder or whatnot. I had no problems using Opera with Hotmail before the interface change. It goes without saying that everything works fine in IE. Does anyone else have these problems or am I doing something wrong here?" It goes without saying that this kind of behavior is expected from Microsoft, nevertheless, has anyone gotten Opera to work with Hotmail? If so, what tricks need to be performed? If anyone else is having problems with a non-IE browser when accessing Hotmail, please share your experiences.

3 of 17 comments (clear)

  1. Ummm, why ask this here? by gss · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems kind of pointless to post this here, you'd have luck better going here.

  2. Web sites developed for MSIE by hafree · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The biggest problem I come across these days is web sites that were "developed for MSIE" and not for Netscape. The big difference is that if your HTML code is written incorrectly, Netscape will not render it and will force you to correct it, while MSIE will simply do its best to fix it for you and will still display it. The most common cause is failure to close TABLE-related html tags. Fancy JavaScript/dhtml and stylesheets tend to break non-MSIE browsers pretty easily too. I hate to sound conspiracy-minded, but it almost seems as if the creators of Microsoft web development tools went out of their way to find every way to break other browsers, and created their software to putput code that does just this. So when you tell me that Hotmail only works correctly with MSIE, I'm really not surprised.

  3. A dandy alternitive to hotmail's website. by Yottabyte84 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A while ago I found a nifty perl script called 'gotmail' which logs onto hotmail and fetches your messages to your user mailbox or fowards them to another email account depending on your prefrence. I have it setup as a cron job, and it works very well. I don't know if it handles attachments, the docs don't say, and I haven't bothered to test it.

    Hope this helps someone.