Opera and simplified version of website

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lightng replied

26 January 2010, 21:30
It's like the millennium bug all over again. Classic.
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Fred Bloggs replied

26 January 2010, 18:36
Jeez, you couldn't make it up could you?......................
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NickFitz replied

26 January 2010, 18:07
The site is clearly run by incompetents

Opera gets a lot of this, so they have a whole team devoted to the problem. There are a number of things you can try listed on their site. In particular, take note of the distinction between changing identification and masking.

If you get no joy contacting the site yourself (or if there's no obvious point of contact) then report it to Opera via the link on that support page. If they can't get the site fixed, they'll try to include a patch in browser.js which will sort things out.

A number of sites (hello Microsoft's Live.com ) stopped working with Opera when it reached version 10. The reason: said sites looked for a version number in the User Agent string, but only looked at the first character of the number. So even if they worked with Opera 9, they thought Opera 10 was Opera 1 and decided it wasn't recent enough
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Clippy started a topic Opera and simplified version of website

26 January 2010, 13:53
Opera and simplified version of website

I use Opera (v10.10) as my main browser.

When I visit a particular site, it displays in a text only type mode with the following message:

"You are viewing a simplified version of our website as you either have CSS disabled, or your web browser doesn't appear to support the latest web standards".

Within Opera, I have adjusted a setting to identify the browser as either IE or FF to try and 'fool' this website into displaying correctly but with no luck.

Anyone know of any other ways of getting this website to display correctly in Opera?

(It's not a massive problem as I only visit this website maybe once a month and I do have IE and FF installed so can use them but thought I would ask the question in case there was a workaround I could use with Opera).
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