Hallvord R. M. Steen

Live.com works with Opera 9

Friday, 16. December 2005, 10:07:32

After a few e-mails back and forth and some serious work on making sure the site and Opera would be dancing to the same rhythm, the live.com team just announced that Opera 9 preview is added to their list of supported browsers.

Thank you, Microsoft!

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Comments

Vinnie Blast # 16. December 2005, 11:03

Well this fits in with Microsofts new image building campaign. IE7 is now scheduled for release itneh first quarter of next year and IE7 second Beta preview is scheduled in the next couple of weeks (possibly).

In the new IE7 there has been talk that the next generation of XHTML (which will be XHTML2) will be taken heavily into consideration in the IE7 build. This comes with Microsoft realising that with the advent of browsers such as Firefox they want something more compliant and that works well. By building their products that allow for the Opera 9 preview is a big step in the right direction.

vinczej # 16. December 2005, 13:39

Yahooooooooo Microsoft! It was a fair step! Keep your way!

[EDIT] Any User JS crashes Live.com. I swtiched off UserJS in opera6.ini for live.com, and works fine!

GeekK # 16. December 2005, 13:48

Crashes my Opera 9TP1...

Pondus # 16. December 2005, 15:19

Now that's a surprise! Great work -- Microsoft should continue to support Opera and not block Opera users like they use to do.

FataL # 16. December 2005, 15:56

O'yeah! Nice!
Good work Opera & Microsoft!

TreeGo # 16. December 2005, 21:36

Good start ... speaking of "start," maybe you should dialogue on Microsoft's www.start.com that is virtually identical to www.live.com.

www.start.com does not work in Opera.

mark_poleon # 20. December 2005, 00:22

Great job!
My O9 TP1 in live.com work is very good

Remo:Erdosain # 21. December 2005, 03:02

But did they remove "propietary extensions" or make it more "standards friendly"?

hallvors # 22. December 2005, 13:35

Among the things they did was to make sure Opera doesn't try to run the "compatibility layer" for Gecko, since that meant Opera would choke on Mozilla's ECMAScript extensions. So, the branches of the script that Opera runs are more ECMA-262 standard than the rest of the "compatibility layer".

MudinyourEye # 9. January 2006, 17:15

I have opera 9 preview running on ubuntu breezy OS. Live.com and start.com doesn't work on it although it does work for google.com/ig. Could it be because of me not running windows XP?

hallvors # 11. January 2006, 04:24

They may be using some OS sniffing as part of their browser sniffing. Can you check that you ID as Opera and see if the problem is still there? If so, I will pass on this information and ask them to look into it.

csant # 11. January 2006, 10:13

MudinyourEye, could you please provide more details on what exactly fails? What package are you using? Does it fail also when you start with a clean personaldir?

MudinyourEye # 12. January 2006, 04:43

i also tried opera 9 preview on my xp computer (the one i am currently using)--and for some reason neither live.com or start.com are loading on both my XP and ubuntu. Only the search box shows up.

Here's Win XP stats
Version9.0
Build8031
PlatformWin32
SystemWindows XP

JavaSun Java Runtime Environment version 1.5
XHTML+VoicePlug-in not loaded
Plug-in pathC:\Program Files\Opera\Program\PluginsC:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\Plugins

do i have to change a certain setting or download a certain plugin?

For ubuntu Opera install i ran the command "sudo dpkg -i opera-static_9.0-20051020.1-qt_en_i386.deb".. (intel-linux version)