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sanat

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Do people running Opera get on the forums OK? I'm running Konqueror on Linux and couldn't get any of the topics to display until I set my browser to identify itself as being IE on Win98. Works perfectly now, but the forum code has one of those Code-for-the-Common-Denominator bugs.
 
I could be sarcastic, but I won't. Opera works but it's last on their list of concerns about compatibility. Konqueror isn't even on the list.
 
Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
I could be sarcastic, but I won't. Opera works but it's last on their list of concerns about compatibility. Konqueror isn't even on the list.
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Could you post that list here?

 
We don't support Konqueror, and probably won't in the near future just because of time, and the level of usage for konqueror (very low). Opera at least on windows I haven't seen any issues besides the one reported about the new left ad stuff. Products are coded for the majority, always, sometimes that means the less popular clients aren't completely supported. It's not intentional, just only so much time in a day, and we support the most popular browsers first (which makes clear sense). The forums like any other web application read in cgi variables to get the browser type, and well if you start spoofing it etc then it won't get read properly (absolutely nothing can be done about that).

Hope that explains.

If you're curious the forum stats for april for browsers are:

MSIE: 89%
Netscape: 8%
Opera: 3%
AOL: 0%
Konqueror: 0%

Of course the 0% are relative to the rest.
 
What's the reason for reading the type and causing the page to fail if it isn't one that's supported? Why not just send the page and let the browser display it if it can, and fail if it can't? Obviously Konqueror isn't an issue. All this does is make it seem like the site is broken or badly coded.
 
You're not understanding what his issue is, and how it relates to the browser detection too lengthy to explain how it works.
 
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