How to enable activex on Opera?

[Malak]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: malak
So you are going to tell Google they are liars? Saying they don't require activex is obviously not correct. Identifying as Opera doesn't work, the page won't load.

Yes. The site does not require ActiveX. If it did I could not access it in Mozilla on OpenBSD, or Camino on Mac OS X, or netscape on Solaris, or Firefox on Linux.

Do you get the same error when Opera's user agent is set correctly?

I already said. The page just simply won't load. If it didn't require activex, then why would they say it did? You are not making a very good arguement.

 

[n0cmonkey]

http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/opera/gmail/

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: malak
So you are going to tell Google they are liars? Saying they don't require activex is obviously not correct. Identifying as Opera doesn't work, the page won't load.

Yes. The site does not require ActiveX. If it did I could not access it in Mozilla on OpenBSD, or Camino on Mac OS X, or netscape on Solaris, or Firefox on Linux.

Do you get the same error when Opera's user agent is set correctly?

I already said. The page just simply won't load. If it didn't require activex, then why would they say it did? You are not making a very good arguement.

I made a perfect argument. The systems I mentioned do not have Active X, but gmail works. Explain that then.

EDIT: You also didn't specify that the error you showed the pic of is what you get when the user agent is set correctly.

From the link I gave:

On 2004-04-01, Google announced the beta trial of their Gmail web-based email service. Opera users were quick to discover that Gmail didn't work with Opera. Internet Explorer and Firefox users raved about how great Gmail was to use. Opera users were pretty annoyed.

The lack of Microsoft's XMLHTTP ActiveX object and Mozilla/Firefox's equivalent, the XMLHttpRequest object, was identified as the primary stumbling block.

It seemed that Opera users would have to wait until Opera Software came up with the required support.

That _isn't_ ActiveX.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: malak
So you are going to tell Google they are liars? Saying they don't require activex is obviously not correct. Identifying as Opera doesn't work, the page won't load.

Yes. The site does not require ActiveX. If it did I could not access it in Mozilla on OpenBSD, or Camino on Mac OS X, or netscape on Solaris, or Firefox on Linux.

Do you get the same error when Opera's user agent is set correctly?

I already said. The page just simply won't load. If it didn't require activex, then why would they say it did? You are not making a very good arguement.

I made a perfect argument. The systems I mentioned do not have Active X, but gmail works. Explain that then.

EDIT: You also didn't specify that the error you showed the pic of is what you get when the user agent is set correctly.

From the link I gave:

On 2004-04-01, Google announced the beta trial of their Gmail web-based email service. Opera users were quick to discover that Gmail didn't work with Opera. Internet Explorer and Firefox users raved about how great Gmail was to use. Opera users were pretty annoyed.

The lack of Microsoft's XMLHTTP ActiveX object and Mozilla/Firefox's equivalent, the XMLHttpRequest object, was identified as the primary stumbling block.

It seemed that Opera users would have to wait until Opera Software came up with the required support.

That _isn't_ ActiveX.

It is activex, Mozilla simply has a way to work with it without using activex. Opera obviously lacks that support now, but then who cares? One website out of billions doesn't work, whoopdeedo. You can still access your email through opera's POP, which is actually faster than just going to it. The next opera will have the functionality to use gmail, and the beta is readily available if someone absolutely must access it with opera.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: malak
It is activex, Mozilla simply has a way to work with it without using activex. Opera obviously lacks that support now, but then who cares? One website out of billions doesn't work, whoopdeedo. You can still access your email through opera's POP, which is actually faster than just going to it. The next opera will have the functionality to use gmail, and the beta is readily available if someone absolutely must access it with opera.

I think you're missing the point. The page that you get if you declare yourself to be a mozilla browser does not contain any activeX, if gmail thinks you can't handle it it's smart enough to do an all html/javascript version. The requirement for activex is purely artificial. They really shouldn't force you if you're using IE and choose to disable it.

And I think people would care if you can't use gmail throught the web interface. It's a very popular service and POP just blows. It'd be different if they offered IMAP.

 

[abaez]

http://home.comcast.net/~a.baez/opera723.jpg

With opera 7.23. Works fine for me. FF is not the better browser . As for the "For a better gmail experience" line.. I don't know what they mean since I use gmail the same way I use IE and nothing is crippled.