Opera 10 is too old! Again!
Friday, 16. May 2008, 16:46:44
Last post I talked about a website with broken version sniffing. It's now been a little over a week since then. I emailed them at the time, but have yet to receive a reply of any sort. The problem still exists, so I don't feel guilty at all about naming that web site now...
Congratulations to ... The Australian Bureau of Meterology!
... and their browser sniffer: http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR.browser_check.v07.js
The "good" news is that Opera is far from the only application to suffer from this sort of short-sightedness. I mentioned that IE has the same problem on the same site, and a comment to my previous post mentions Flash version sniffing with the same affliction.
Although the cynic in me suspects that sites will have different Flash version sniffing code for different browsers, and only the path followed by Opera will have the bug. I will be very happy to be wrong, though!
Congratulations to ... The Australian Bureau of Meterology!... and their browser sniffer: http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR.browser_check.v07.js
The "good" news is that Opera is far from the only application to suffer from this sort of short-sightedness. I mentioned that IE has the same problem on the same site, and a comment to my previous post mentions Flash version sniffing with the same affliction.
Although the cynic in me suspects that sites will have different Flash version sniffing code for different browsers, and only the path followed by Opera will have the bug. I will be very happy to be wrong, though!
