Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE

Anonymous reader writes "The Opera browser will stop spoofing its User Agent (UA) as Internet Explorer. Currently Opera, by default, spoofs its UA to identify itself as Internet Explorer. This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher, and will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera."

Comments

Re:Whining?

[hkmwbz]

You apparently don't get it. Pointing out the fact that Opera is undercounted when someone tries a cheap shot and makes a point about how "no one using Opera" is not whining.

The slavery point was that just because you are pointing out that something isn't right doesn't mean that you are "whining". When someone points out that Opera is being discriminated against, either because stats don't count it correctly, or because someone specifically blocks Opera from a site, it is not whining. Especially not if someone asked them about it, and they responded.

"Surely they were aware of the risk of not being counted properly when they made the decision to spoof their User agent. It was their decision, and they knew what they were doing. They need to live with the (minor, imho) consequences, or fix it (as they're finally doing, good for them.)"

I still don't get it. Opera can't point out the fact that it identifies as IE by default and that this causes it to be undercounted because Opera identifies as IE by default?

"My comments were about Opera the company"

And when, pray tell, has Opera Software "whined"?

"I said no such thing. Your English comprehension skills may be lame, but I said no such thing about the Opera browser."

No, but you said it about Opera the company. Learn English yourself, why don't you...

Re:Whining?

[bunratty]

And when, pray tell, has Opera Software "whined"?

They whine all the time. The CEO whined about Opera being undercounted and Firefox overcounted in the stats. They whined (and borked!, and apparently sued!!) when Microsoft websites sent them broken code. They whined when Apple came out with Safari, and made noises like they wouldn't continue developing Opera on the Mac because of unfair competition.

And that's just the company itself. Don't even get me started on how Opera's users whine (Hey, Opera had that feature first! They stole it from us!). Damn, I already got started.