Hallvord R. M. Steen

Hotmail has class

Thursday, 14. August 2008, 12:09:14

Hotmail's choice of class attribute for its HTML element if you use Opera to access it just strikes me as very funny.. The output of a

javascript:alert(document.documentElement.className)

command is:

That's right. In other words

<html class="Firefox FF_Win FF_M1 FF_D5 Opera">

Is that what you would call exquisite confusion?

Aside, I hope to have the basic Hotmail working again in Opera 9.2x before the end of the day. After all, what's an insulting class declaration to a browser from the proudly egalitarian Scandinavian peninsula? We're above class, for sure

User JS contest time!MS' Virtualearth claims Opera has no SVG support

Comments

dbloom # 14. August 2008, 13:16

Is it because we spoof as Firefox for Hotmail?

hallvors # 14. August 2008, 14:04

Certainly. The Firefox-related ones are hardcoded from the server, the "Opera" part added from JavaScript.

MTKnight # 14. August 2008, 16:27

What's are the classes for, though?

hallvors # 14. August 2008, 17:25

They probably enable browser-specific CSS workarounds. I.e.

.someclass{ ..some rules.. }

.Firefox .someclass{ .. fix a Firefox problem with "someclass" here .. }