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to: Joe Barr
from: Randy H
date: 2003-02-07 18:39:18
subject: Re: MSN deliberately breaks Opera browsers

From: "Randy H" 

"Watch what they say, then watch what they do."

"Joe Barr"  wrote in message
news:3e4330b9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> From the once a chickenshit scumbag, always a chickenshit scumbag
> department:
>
> Richard Shupak and his friends in Research & Development hard at work
> again, no doubt.
>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29219.html
>
> Opera tried to test whether or not this was deliberate by changing
> identification to the non-existent browser Oprah. This returns the IE
> style sheet, which works perfectly well in Opera. In Opera's view MSN is
> therefore looking specifically for "Opera" in the User-Agent
string and
> sending it a broken style sheet. That, of course, could still be a
> mistake, as it's perfectly logical to send IE as the default if the
> browser can't be identified. But as there was no need for MSN to design an
> Opera-specific style sheet in the first place, one wonders... R
>
>
>
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