i dont know if any one else has noticed but opera's (inet browser) feature to spoof which browser it is (can pretend to be IE6) is flawed.
this used to work but instead of opera giving exactly the same responce as IE when sites ask what browser, they have added a bit saying opera on the end. sites are checking for this now, and crippling themselves. i dont want to use IE just because of this flaw.
afaik opera follows the standards closly which IE doesnt as much, as IE is more popular (popularity is not a measure of whats best) so sites are made around its bugs. making some of them look wrong in opera.
becuase of this, sites are now cripleing opera by sending it different content than IE, for example microdirect sends a text only site to opera and says at bottom that you have to order stuff by phone instead...
example site - http://www.microdirect.co.uk/
IE sees this - http://www.microdirect.co.uk/default2.asp
opera sees this - http://www.microdirect.co.uk/text/default.asp
the one IE sees is obviosly preferred, and it also looks like the IE one works fine in opera (if you paste the IE link) so why have they done this???
any one here have the skills to hex edit the opera part of the string out, which would fix this? it is possible but i cant remember how...