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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.
Opera should respond by automatically translating any page on the Microsoft web site into German and back again with Babelfish.
I think we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt here. I mean, it's really easy to slip up and identify a specific user agent, and serve a web page to it that has a content margin set to -30 pixels. We've all done it before, right?
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>back to the bad old days at Microsoft
Drat, I must have missed the good days.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
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Why would anyone want to visit msn.com anyway?
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
When the revolution comes, your ass will be 6 feet under.
You've certainly come to the right place for an objective opinion on Microsoft policies.
Because I wanted to see this behaviour first-hand in my browser, after reading this post on Slashdot.
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Please someone create a browser (just use the Moz code) and call it "I can't believe its not Internet Explorer" and have that as the User-Agent string!!
Honestly - it would be soo tops. That would appear in everones web access log, and they'd be wondering what it was, and so they'd download it too.
Or just add a "not internet exploder" user-agent string option to Moz? Because you shouldn't need the UA string anyway - just use the Accepts header!
Please someone... do this? For me? For us?
Dude, this MSN page looks pretty messed up in *any* browser. How's that for cross-browser compatibility eh?
I predict a mysterious but sudden moderation to -1 Offtopic in your future...
You're right, it must be an mistake. It's well known that most web designers will post browser specific versions of major sites without ever testing/debugging them on the browser for which they're built. This sort of thing happens all the time.
Now, what's the W3C compliant way to get my [sarcasm] [/sarcasm] tags to display properly?
My browser is set to send nonsense ...
Coincidentally, so are most web servers.
The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
Maybe they don't want to. But Internet Explorer certainly does.
a quote:
MSNBC News
- * Powell titty fucks his case to Congress
pretty accurate, too.Slashdot: Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera.
The people: So what, you send broken HTML to everybody!
Or maybe it is time for another "which site is most popular" statistics, and MSN is trying to generate traffic by having this come out on
There are many (most? all?) companies that are much smaller that manage to not alienate customers intentionally. I am a big customer of Microsoft's; we buy a ton of software from them. I just use Linux, and I like to look up answers on their site using Mozilla, or UNLOCK MY VOLUME LICENSES on their website, which requires a passport account (which, incidentlly, is how I stumbled into this bug in the first place). I was trying to give them money, and they just slapped me in the face.
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.