João Eiras

We only know what indexOf is

Friday, 5. December 2008, 12:20:45

discrimination, indexOf, sniffing, yahoo, braindead, opera

It seems like yahoo.com somehow is blocking Peregrine

I'll leave you with a quote and let you draw your own conclusions.
http://my.opera.com/Andrew%20Gregory/blog/2008/05/11/opera-10-is-too-old

Originally posted by Andrew Gregory:

If you're one of those people irritated at how poorly Opera appears to handle web site scripting - this is one of the bigger reasons. It's straight-out careless programming without thought.

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Comments

Andrew Gregory # 6. December 2008, 00:57

Thanks for the mention!

Now that the Opera 10 Alpha is out, it's time to write to the BOM *again* (third time lucky, maybe?) and see if they'll finally do something.

BTW, the Yahoo blocking is entirely server-side. There's no Javascript involved at all. That makes it simple to work around (site-specific "Mask as...").

PS. I like your cat photos!

_Grey_ # 6. December 2008, 20:00

A brilliant idea just hit me: Implement a "Mask as Opera 9" option

This entire browser-sniffing business is depressing

Cyro # 7. December 2008, 12:46

I'm seeing this a lot through forums, websites, etc.
Hotmail has the same behavior.

We should name this bug. Like "Opera's Millenium bug" for example. Or perhaps "Opera's two digit version bug".

_Grey_ # 7. December 2008, 16:59

Why "opera's"? It'll hit IE, once they get IE10 out, too (most probably). But I like the sound of "two-digit version bug".

Cyro # 9. December 2008, 16:09

Some websites spoofing mechanism is considering Opera 10 as Opera 1.0.
Another example is Bank Of America.

Since it's impossible to tell all developers to fix their code on Opera, I guess Opera Software must found a way into this mess, and clear things up.