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Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the accidents-happen dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register has a story that the MSN homepage serves a different style sheet to the Opera web browser that makes Opera appear to be broken. Is this deliberate or a mistake? Who can possibly say? Opera's own take on the situation can be found here." This is not the first time.

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  1. Re:Standards schmandards. by walt-sjc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh please. If you RTFA, Opera works fine with the MSIE version of the pages. What MS is doing is deliberate sabotage. It's quite clear what they are doing, and anyone that knows anything about MS's historical behavior knows why.

  2. Re:Standards schmandards. by borat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it's their web site, they can do what ever they want with it. some sites flat out deny browsers that id themselves as IE and i don't ever see anybody complaining about that.

  3. are you forced by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    to use a game whose developers were blackmailed by M$?

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  4. "Opera 6 handles it fine" by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Therefor: Shut the fuck up.
    Opera 7 came out of beta LAST WEEK, you fucking assholes. Microsoft isnt going out of its way to support each new version of a competing product the moment it comes out.
    You know why it looks like Opera 7 has a "serious flaw" which makes some web pages completely unreadable? It's because It does have a serious flaw. Any time you break compatability with your older versions in such a way that whole blocks of formerly readable text now becomes completely invisible, That is a flaw. Don't cry foul to MS when your favorite browser suddenly does something which is completely fucking stupid.

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  5. READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE by chefmonkey · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    It's not that MS didn't make provisions for Opera. It's intentionally sending a broken style sheet. If you tweak the user-agent string (change Opera to, say, Oprea), it sends the "normal" style sheet, and Opera can render it just fine.

    This is obviously an intentionally different style sheet. They went out of their way to send a different set of data to Opera than they do to any other browser in the world. And it's broken.

    I'm just the type of person that'd rather look at all the details than try to find details to support a bias.
    Then why the hell didn't you?