Re: Opera Problems - anyone else

Andy,

You'll have to set your scripts to detect a bit more that just MSIE...
Here's the HTTP_USER_AGENT string for Opera, even when it's set to identify
itself as MSIE 5:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows XP) Opera 6.01 [en]

Notice that it includes it's real name in there...

Here's the other ID strings it can send:

Mozilla/3.0 (Windows XP; U) Opera 6.01 [en]
Mozilla/4.78 (Windows XP; U) Opera 6.01 [en]
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows XP; U) Opera 6.01 [en]
Opera/6.01 (Windows XP; U) [en]

In all cases, it does include its true identity in the tag, so just look for
that in your scripts.

Hope this helps!

Kehvan

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Innes" <innax(at)icon.co.za>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 04:19
Subject: Opera Problems - anyone else


> Hi all
>
> I am busy writing a web site with two versions of the homepage - one with
an
> embedded flash image in a table cell, one with a jpeg in place of the
flash
> file to degrade gracefully on Netscape and Opera.
>
> My default page does a browser detect and sends msie 4 or later to the
page
> with flash and all others to the one without (which displays correctly in
NN
> 4.78 and Opera
>
> The problem here is that OPERA IDENTIFIES ITSELF AS IE5.0 BY DEFAULT!
>
> So - the script runs on Opera - detects ie5.0 - and sends Opera to the
wrong
> page, Opera reads the embed tag and creates a 3-4px gap around the Flash
> file, thus breaking the table.
>
> Can anyone think of a way around this?
>
> Please help
>
> Andy
>
>
>

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