FataL

New "beta" Ask and AllTheWeb block Opera

Friday, 29. December 2006, 21:00:29

Two beta versions of search engines (Ask and AllTheWeb Livesearch) block Opera for no reason. Both services work pretty well (only with small quirks) when mask as Firefox for example.
That's what I got on AllTheWeb's page:

For an optimal Livesearch experience,
we only support the following browsers with javascript at this time:
Windows 98/2000/XP - IE 6.0, Firefox 1.5
Mac OSX 10.3 - Firefox 1.5
Mac OSX 10.4 - Firefox 1.5
We plan to support Safari soon. Please let us know if there is interest.

No mention about support of Opera at all, even in future.
The new experemental Ask supports only this:

Minimum browsers versions:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Firefox 1.5
Safari 2.0
Netscape 7.0
Camino 1.0

When I try to search it redirects me to old Ask interface.
All these are truly Web 2.0!

US goverment site where Opera works but Firefox doesn't5 wishes for future Opera browser

Comments

lugansk # 11. February 2007, 01:36

Askx сейчас у меня нормально открылся и даже искал что-то, а вот AllTheWeb Livesearch до сих пор такое показывает. При том что при Mask as Internet Explorer всё нормально работает. Приехали. Они когда-нибудь не браузер по userAgent, а поддержку конкретных используемых функций проверять скриптом научатся?

FataL # 12. February 2007, 16:04

Да, точно, Ask заработал.

Khaled Khalil # 20. March 2007, 17:20

that's really strange!
alltheweb say that they are opera compliant at the bottom of their normal (not livesearch) pages

Jani # 3. April 2007, 06:57

I don't really get the point of not supporting Opera. I've seen many pages that cry about Opera but they still work perfectly fine after you change identification to something else than Opera