Re: Fonts.

by "Annette Ramsey" <annetteramsey(at)ozemail.com.au>

Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:04:20 +1000
To:	<bart(at)gigabee.com>, "Freda Lockert" <freda(at)appleonline.net>, <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	site5
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Yes Opera is set to identify as MSIE5 by default, but you can change this in
your preferences - File / Preferences / Connections.

Annette

> >Someone told me that Opera identifies itself as IE5 by default; if that's
> >so then browser stats on IE are 'iffy' at best, even given Opera's still
> >small market share.
>
> Hmm... I'm not entirely sure if Opera identifies itself as MSIE5 *by
default*.
> I do know that it would be smart of anyone who uses Opera to change
> it to identify as MSIE5, though, because there are way too many sites
> with lousy browser detection. I use Opera about 70% of the time and it's
> a lot more useable when it's set to MSIE5. Funny thing is that when I
> do use MSIE6 (not my choice to install it on this computer), I often end
> up switching back to Opera because sites aren't recognizing it properly
> either. And I'm talking about business sites like the account management
> software for banks/credit cards and my university's class registration
site.
> I wonder how Microsoft plans on fixing that problem when MSIE6 is
released.
>
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