Brett_Tabke - 12:48 pm on Jul 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

Brads got it. Plus all the cloaked sites that take actions based on user agents. Some of them you can't get into as Opera, or behave wrong because they don't check for Opera.

Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, Google, Ebay, and many more sites cloak various features that are browser specific.

Javascript is the prime culprit though. Most pages have two sets of js - one for ie, and one for netscape. Which one is Opera suppose to run? (actually, it can run either). If in Moz/Netscape mode, it runs the netscape code, if in IE mode, it runs the IE code. Only if it is in Opera native mode and the code has an Opera section, will it run any "opera" code.

To check for Opera as a user agent, you must parse the entire agent string for the word "opera". current agent names:

Opera/6.04 (Windows 98; U) [en]
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 98; U) Opera 6.04 [en]
Mozilla/4.78 (Windows 98; U) Opera 6.04 [en]
Mozilla/3.0 (Windows 98; U) Opera 6.04 [en]
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98) Opera 6.04 [en]

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 2:11 pm (utc) on July 6, 2002]