Simon Willison’s Weblog

Changes in Opera’s user agent string format (via) How depressing... Opera 10 will ship with 9.80 in the User-Agent string because badly written browser sniffing scripts can’t cope with double digits.

# 28th May 2009, 1:16 am / browsers, browsersniffing, opera, useragent

A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE. Opera recommend “bug detection”, a step up from object detection and browser sniffing where your JavaScript includes mini unit test style fragments of code designed to test if buggy behaviour you are working around still affects the user’s browser.

# 4th July 2008, 8:24 am / acid3, browsers, browsersniffing, bugdetection, javascript, object, objectdetection, opera, tinymce