Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:18:51 AM
opera, project, open source, extension
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"Fix the Web" is the name of an extension that I and some other extension programmers are developing. Its goal, hinted by its name, is to solve the problem of websites that don't work or look as they should due to poor coding techniques. It is not yet released in the Opera extensions catalog, but you can
fork the repository on Github. If you want to contribute your coding or design skills to this project, or you just want to find more out more about what this project, then
check out this post.
I will keep posting updates as the project moves along.
Monday, November 28, 2011 6:59:50 PM
Amazon, opera, identify, incompatibility
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Amazon blocks some features on their website from us Opera users. One feature, for example, that is blocked is the "click to preview" feature. Instead of showing the book preview, it will tell you your browser is not compatible. This is an example of a very bad web practice called "browser sniffing" that should have been replaced by
feature detection long ago.
Anyway, there is a very simple workaround. Just go to Amazon, right-click on the page and select "Edit Site Preferences..." Go to the "network" tab and under "Browser identification" select "Identify as Firefox". Reload the page and see if the feature is now working. If it is not, then select "Mask as Firefox" instead. Masking should be a last resort as it removes absolutely any trace of the browser being Opera. But, in certain cases, as with Amazon's "click to preview", masking is necessary.
Read more at
http://www.cyberstream.us/post/opera-browser-website-incompatibilities-how-to-fix-them
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