Project F5: Reloading Opera info on the Web
By Lawrence EngLawmune. Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:51:34 PM
Project F5: Reloading Opera info on the Web
When it comes to helping Web developers adhere to open standards so that their sites will work properly in Opera, our storied (Storey-ed?) Open the Web team is always up to the challenge.
That said, there are other website issues we could use your help with. In particular, there are a lot of sites out there that have old, outdated, or simply incorrect information about Opera. For example, some sites still claim that Opera contains built-in advertising (unless users pay a license fee). That stopped being the case just over two years ago! There are other misconceptions as well, such as people confusing Opera Mini with Opera Mobile.
As an ongoing project, let's work together to correct websites that have incorrect information about Opera. Obviously, we don't have to fix every old news article talking about previous versions of Opera, but general information sites without a specific publication date should be corrected to reflect the latest info. In general, a polite letter to the relevant Webmaster should be sufficient.
When you've contacted a site, please post the URL below (so that others won't contact the same site over and over again) and describe what you asked them to fix. I'll send an Opera goodie-bag to the person who contacts the most sites in two weeks (deadline: Oct. 10th), and if you find/contact at least 5 sites with incorrect/outdated information about Opera, I'll enter you into a random drawing to win one other goodie-bag.
Good luck!
EDIT (10/17/07)
The contest is over, and we're really grateful you all participated to help us fix misconceptions about Opera. Without further ado, here are the winners!
Overall winner:
The winner of the random drawing is:
Congrats all around!




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Tamil # Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:10:58 PM
FavDjiXas # Friday, September 28, 2007 9:54:40 AM
http://www.opera.com/privacy/ads/
It says that applies to opera 8 or so, but shouldn't you just redirect to a new page where it says: Opera IS FREE, Still using Opera 8 with ads? Get Opera 9 with NO ads and enjoy best web experience.
FavDjiXas # Friday, September 28, 2007 9:58:34 AM
http://www.9down.com/Opera-v9-10-build-8692-8110/
And other posts in same site... Contacted and asked if they could change where it says that Opera got ads to something like Opera is free now and has no ads, hope they will fix.
Contacted http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci212712,00.html
Asked to change text where it says "Opera is free for download to all supported platforms. The free version of Opera contains ads" as Opera has no ads now.
Alexis DeveriaFyrd # Friday, September 28, 2007 12:41:28 PM
A tutorial on Opera, specifically Opera 5(!). Since this is linked to from the front page as just "Opera tutorial", it certainly seems like it ought to be updated.
I've asked them to either update the page for Opera 9, or at least add a note at the top that O9 has many improved features and that the rest of the tutorial refers to a much older version.
FataL # Friday, September 28, 2007 8:10:43 PM
FataL # Friday, September 28, 2007 8:43:17 PM
FataL # Friday, September 28, 2007 9:35:21 PM
http://www.stalker-game.com
http://www.heroesofae.com
Translation of letter to come...
FataL # Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:13:46 AM
FavDjiXas # Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:38:43 PM
AyushAyushJ # Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:41:27 PM
James & Lorna Wildingcjwilding # Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:55:22 PM
namedduenker # Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:34:24 PM
Told them, that opera no longer contains advertising.
http://www.galileo-webdesign.de/service/lexikon.php?article=42
same as above.
mabdul # Monday, October 1, 2007 2:41:57 PM
old, very short "internet-wiki"
send them a mail for a small update
Sergio Uribesuribe # Monday, October 1, 2007 3:28:47 PM
Lawrence EngLawmune # Monday, October 1, 2007 3:33:56 PM
By the way, great job everyone. Keep it up!
FataL: really funny (scary description of Opera)
FavDjiXas # Monday, October 1, 2007 3:51:05 PM
Asking to add other OS support than Windows too.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/Facilities/FAQ/WWW/opera.html Asked to update FAQ :-)
http://www.opera.com/buy/ title says
Buy Opera. I think this should be changed as you can't "BUY OPERA". Only support or so...
Should be changed as well.
Haven't contacted Opera as people from Opera are here anyway :-)
By the way, I think you should fix whole Opera.com site before asking others to fix their ;-)
Philip Seyfiseifip # Monday, October 1, 2007 4:07:40 PM
UPDATE: Just received an email from Ivo Lašek, their admin. They fixed the outdated info... thnx!
Philip Seyfiseifip # Monday, October 1, 2007 4:24:11 PM
Philip Seyfiseifip # Monday, October 1, 2007 4:41:07 PM
Philip Seyfiseifip # Monday, October 1, 2007 4:46:42 PM
Philip Seyfiseifip # Monday, October 1, 2007 4:52:05 PM
FavDjiXas # Monday, October 1, 2007 4:58:36 PM
Philip Seyfiseifip # Monday, October 1, 2007 5:20:43 PM
2Lawmune: Please correct me if I'm wrong
Lawrence EngLawmune # Monday, October 1, 2007 5:27:23 PM
DjiXas: We know we have a lot of work to do on opera.com. Luckily, it's something we have direct control over, and we're already working on it. That said, thank you for bringing certain outdated parts of our site to our attention.
FataL # Monday, October 1, 2007 7:06:00 PM
Haven't find a way to contact yet...
FataL # Monday, October 1, 2007 7:19:04 PM
FataL # Monday, October 1, 2007 7:26:26 PM
Haven't find a way to contact yet...
FataL # Monday, October 1, 2007 7:36:26 PM
FataL # Monday, October 1, 2007 8:01:08 PM
http://www.stalker-game.com
http://www.heroesofae.com
Translation of letter:
Translation of answer:
Original of answer:
It's nonsence, especially CSS part!
mabdul # Monday, October 1, 2007 8:23:17 PM
mabdul # Monday, October 1, 2007 8:32:46 PM
old information, they get a contactmail from me tomorrow
edit:
http://www.opera7.de/de/advertising.html
the normal page is "up to date" --> link can only found by search/google
KYrenKYren # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 3:15:18 AM
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135732-page,4-c,musicvideosharing/article.html
Philip Seyfiseifip # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 6:01:59 PM
Philip Seyfiseifip # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 6:31:45 PM
Philip Seyfiseifip # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 6:54:10 PM
Lawrence EngLawmune # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 7:50:03 PM
FataL # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 9:08:03 PM
FataL # Tuesday, October 2, 2007 9:13:16 PM
Note fall2004 in URL.
mabdul # Wednesday, October 3, 2007 9:34:07 AM
on http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/
they noticed that:
WolvenSpectre # Wednesday, October 3, 2007 9:40:43 AM
While not one of the older Opera myths, this is more of a case of misunderstandings and misinformation that has been going around about the mobile versions of the browser like Mini hasn't come out yet or that you can only get it if it is on the phone when you buy it. This doesn't even begin to address the load that Salesman Steve managed to sell about Safari on the iPhone and Windows.
FavDjiXas # Wednesday, October 3, 2007 1:53:52 PM
mabdul # Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:04:35 PM
http://www.roxomatic.de/767/opera-8-kostenlos
http://blog.webmaster-homepage.de/item/940
not contacted, because they have also news about that opera got ad-free:
http://unblogbar.com/weblog/1211/opera-lizenz-fuer-250-besucher/
and: why this page?
http://my.opera.com/community/affiliates/
it is old and there should be an information about the free version!
mabdul # Wednesday, October 3, 2007 5:15:58 PM
i found at the end of the page an interesting affilicate "news"-ad
(link to: http://algoresult.miva.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opera.com%2F&pr=2&pid=S4P1676&co=DE&global=1&adult=1&query=opera&pos=1)
you need to update this!
i contacted http://www.silicon.de/enid/business_software/8363
Thomas Fordthomas.ford # Wednesday, October 3, 2007 11:34:15 PM
I think one thing to bear in mind when trying to convince Web developers to support Opera is that we are the leader in browsing on all screens. When they decide not to support Opera in their development cycle, they ensure their sites will not work on a very popular game console and almost 100 million mobile phones (between Opera Mobile and Opera Mini).
But keep up the excellent work and trust that Opera is out there everyday too, working to change perceptions of Webmasters the world over.
Thanks again!
Khadra Warsame Penh Neangkhadwar_neang_666 # Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:12:41 AM
Lawrence EngLawmune # Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:59:42 PM
Thanks for the great work so far, everyone!
Joecanadian # Friday, October 5, 2007 11:57:12 AM
FWIW --> http://youtube.com/watch?v=EeYMugP22K0
Zolizoligrg89 # Saturday, October 6, 2007 7:14:02 PM
http://www.pcplusz.hu/cikk.jsp?id=46
http://www.mamanet.hu/modules.php?name=Downloads&cid=9
http://www.sat.hu/read.php?id=781
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/taxid;1800806769;pid;1132;pt;1
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4316308744.html
http://www.pixelrage.ro/news/Download-Opera-7.20/26.html
http://www.julies.net/opera.htm
I sent each of them a friendly message , asking them to update their article.
mabdul # Saturday, October 6, 2007 7:42:04 PM
http://www.tomshardware.com/de/beta-2-des-neuen-opera-7-browsers,news-5738.html
http://www.marcogabriel.com/blog/archives/34-Ist-Opera-wirklich-der-bessere-Browser.html
old (2001) and contacted!
http://www.computerlexikon.com/definition-opera?highlight=opera
mabdul # Sunday, October 7, 2007 3:01:41 PM
Originally posted by http://www.jurawiki.de/JuraWikiTestetGoogleWerbung:
contacted
http://www.koenigs-media.ch/inter02.htm
also contacted