BBC error

BBC error

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/7493394.stm

Gives me the error

Sorry, your browser does not support BBC Sport's Olympic map.

(Opera 9.51 also gives me this in Safari 3.12)

I think it is because it is based of of Microsoft Live Maps which bans Opera users.... I am on 10.4.11 intel
I get the BBC map to work if I mask as FF


for maps.live.com
I get it to work if I id as another browser IE6 the ie string


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yes, works well enough, on 10108, masked as FF!!! - XP SP2, do not have .NET, only DX9.. Geforce2-MX400 card.. 1.5G P4.. so not that great...

a bit strange though, a lot of 'needs' for IE, that it does not need for FF..... :|

- and yes, http://maps.live.com/ work OK, too!! only ID as FF... (when you change to ID as Opera, it gives the message, but when you switch back to FF, and reload, it is 'happy' again... )

@ illad it Is Microsoft being afraid of Opera again...

well that's MS for you... or any big company relying on 'stupidity' - eg on some clothes! - "do not remove this label on pain of prosecution!"

the point is, the site is not 'testing for opera' very hard.. (sees 'firefox' , ignores extended opera ID, goes away happy its FF... )

Crap stuff:
http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/2008/08/20/ms-virtualearth-claims

BBC has let me know that they will look into it, funy thing is that some of my friends and family who have IE 7 also get the same message on a windows machine, I'm on a Mac


The email from bbc reponce:
Chas,

Thanks for your e-mail, I've forwarded it to our map team to check.

Thanks again,


Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC SPORT INTERACTIVE

Chas4: well it looks like THEY need to upgrade!! I'll bet they have not heard of it!! - A very good reason to get your friends to try opera!!

- and the final is out!! click here and choose your OS!

OK, a browser.js fix goes live on the server tomorrowish.
It will make the BBC Olympic map work perfectly well in my Opera 9.5x - ironically it now works much better in Opera than it does in IE 8 beta..

new shaphot out!! see weekly desktop blog for 10408....

Waiting for more info from:

Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC SPORT INTERACTIVE

browser.js is out. Do a "Help > Check for updates" and see if the map works for you now. Note that the patch is so far applied to 9.5x only.

@ hallovrs what is the current browser.js?

I have as of today:
Current browser.js status: enabled. The active browser.js file is Opera Desktop 9.50, August 22, 2008

and the bcc site gives me:
Sorry, your browser does not support BBC Sport's Olympic map.

Originally posted by Chas4:

Current browser.js status: enabled. The active browser.js file is Opera Desktop 9.50, August 22, 2008

The correct one..

Originally posted by Chas4:

and the bcc site gives me:
Sorry, your browser does not support BBC Sport's Olympic map.

Did they remove the map? I now get that same message in all browsers..?? IE 8, Opera IDing as Firefox (in case they added server-side sniffing), Firefox 3..??

Foo. They've beaten us - we can't patch what isn't there anymore

At least I added a generic patch that should enable SVG usage in the VirtualEarth script on all sites that use it, so it was a useful excercise..

I just asked Richard Irvine-Brown of BBC SPORT INTERACTIVE to see if there was any word. I will post the response here if I get one back.

Unless I'm looking at a different map: BBC Sport's Olympic Map.
Earlier this gave the "We're sorry..." message, now (a browser.js message pops up in the console and) it initiates VirtualEarth.
Which with the latest browser.js, appears to be working exactly as it should.

:-)


Edit: Added comment in teal...

@ eVirtus interesting find, it works for me

Send the BBC some feedback:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/07/creating_our_olympic_map.html

This BBC radio page - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_radio_three - says, that I need to install RealPlayer.
I did. Still the message appears and I can't listen to live radio in Opera. (In IE6 it works).

Before I installed Opera 9.5 I could listen to RealPlayer streaming radio. Now not. Am I wrong somewhere?
Please, help me to keep on using my favourite web browser!

Try uninstalling RealPlayer

Then installing it form here:
http://real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=rnwk

See if that works

Try uninstalling RealPlayer.

Then installing Real Alternative. Seriously, RealPlayer is an ugly bloated intrusive piece of software. Real Alternative will give you all you need to playback RealPlayer formats in other programs and in your browser without any of the crap you don't need.

And it works fine at the link you gave.