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 | | From: | Matthew Winn | | Subject: | Re: Whining Doomsday Dorks! (was: Opera 7.54u1 slower than 7.54 ?!?) | | Date: | Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:06:22 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:47:06 +0100, Rafferty wrote:
> "Milhouse Van Houten" wrote:
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> >BTW, I just loved the first answer to your question, which was basically to
> >talk to your webmaster and have them fix their problem. Yeah, let's get
> >right on that; there really can't be that many Web sites out there, right?
> >Oh, isn't that always the answer, it's the Web site's fault. Whenever
> >something doesn't work in Opera, even when it works in other browsers,
> >that's always the answer.
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> Oh dear, we've just stumbled upon the local troll, have we?
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> You only get that answer if the site actually does something to prevent
> Opera from working properly, such as browser sniffing.
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> And what's not working properly in this case? The site tells Opera to
> reload, so Opera reloads. What's not working properly here exactly? The
> guy was told how the site needs to be fixed if he doesn't want the
> browser to reload pages like IE and FF do.
No, you don't understand. Opera needs to handle the web as it is,
not as we'd like it to be. If site A tells Opera to reload the page
unnecessarily while site B tells Opera to reload the page for a good
reason Opera should be able to tell the difference automatically and
behave appropriately. It doesn't matter what the website says, Opera
should be able to do what the site's author intended, not what they
actually told it to do. Even if the site is utter rubbish and makes
no sense at all, Opera should sort it out. It doesn't matter that
there's no way Opera could possibly guess the webmaster's intention
every time. It should just do it. Everything is Opera's fault.
Everything. The web is full of crap: Opera's fault. Too much spam:
Opera's fault. Low value of the dollar: Opera's fault. The sun is
going to explode in four thousand millions years and incinerate the
entire planet, and that's Opera's fault too. It's all Opera's fault.
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Matthew Winn
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