I wonder how the Swedish chef feels about helping out a Norwegian made browser.
Regards, Ivan
Posted on 02/18/2003 12:43:25 AM PST by MadIvan
Opera Software has exacted revenge on Microsoft for allegedly making anyone who visits the MSN home page using Opera get the impression that something is wrong with the browser.
Opera's answer was to produce a version of its browser that it calls the Opera 7 "Bork" version, after the Swedish chef Bork from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!
Opera's Bork version renders all pages fine - except the MSN home page. This page loads as normal and then immediately gets translated into Borkspeak. (A screenshot is here; those on slow connections be warned, the image is 102k.)
In a media release, Mary Lambert, product line manager desktop, of Opera Software said: "This is a joke. However, we are trying to make an important point. The MSN site is sending Opera users what appear to be intentionally distorted pages.
"The Bork edition illustrates how browsers could also distort content, as the Bork edition does. The real point here is that the success of the Web depends on software and Web site developers behaving well and rising above corporate rivalry."
According to the media release, MSN now allows access to users of Opera 7, but is still targeting and sending users of earlier versions a broken page.
Opera Software says this treatment is unnecessary, as the page would look the same in Opera as in Microsoft's own Internet Explorer if it had been fed the same information.
Microsoft has not reacted to what is the latest move in a long-running spat between the two browsers.
I wonder how the Swedish chef feels about helping out a Norwegian made browser.
Regards, Ivan
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Yeah, Tux is on fire. And he's still ice cold to boot!
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Really, now, this is just getting silly. What if Microsoft made IE do the same thing to Slashdot? (I'll bet they've thought about it... ;-)
But I thought I heard that Opera 6 was broken, and that the CSS that MSN supplied was merely compensating for that. I know that someone from Opera denied that v.6 was broken, but Opera's press release states:
MSN now allows access to users of Opera 7, but is still targeting and sending users of earlier versions a broken page. This treatment is completely unnecessary, as the page would look the same in Opera as in Microsoft's own Internet Explorer if it had been fed the same information.
Kinda implies that there is a difference between v.6 and v.7 but I certainly don't know the whole story. Maybe Opera is going for their 15 minutes of fame here...
So, the zipper on the leather jacket looks like suspenders and/or Tux is a "suicide bomber."
Your attempt at humor... failed.
T-minus 27 days until the birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.
Note to self: Buy a copy of Opera.
I wonder if the software world will ever have to obey the laws like the rest of the world does?
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