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Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera
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.
kill the competition!!! Remember when they wouldn't allow you to visit msn.com unless your user-agent string contained "MSIE"?
and once again, Microsoft gives me a reason to hate them. Sorry, nothing more constructive.
Anyone here use Opera (I hear .01% of the crowd)
Who uses Netscape (10%)
And Mozilla ? (0.01%)
And what is a browser ?
I KNOW (5%)
I DON'T KNOW (85%)
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
Damn them!!!!!!!!!!! die MS now. that is really evil
MS does follow the standards. But they also go beyond them. That's why some sites have different pages for different browsers; to take advantage of the little extras of specific browsers.
If Mozilla/Opera can't be bothered to invent a little like MS is doing then oh well. Their loss. If MS didn't support all the basics then I'd care. But since they do and then some I use IE and cater my site to IE and occasionally care that it doesn't look exactly the same in Mozilla.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
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.
I've just discovered that www.opera.com hangs Internet Explorer 4.
That sort of retaliation attack is just lame. Two wrongs don't make a right!
I mean, you don't understand that the Web is the next TV, but with more money?! They're gonna rape the Web and stick it in a box and in the process make a few billion dollars. Microsoft realizes this and currently figures that pissing off a bunch of impotent computer jocks is worth the short-term flack in exchange for the long-term gain of hundreds of billions of slick new US Greenbacks.
Do shut up, you overopinionated, ill-informed prick.
Good question - I was wondering that myself!
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.
to use a game whose developers were blackmailed by M$?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
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.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
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.
Then why the hell didn't you?