Annoyed at Opera

[pne]

You know, I'm rather annoyed at Opera.

One of the things I learned from ciwah is that MSIE is not a browser because it ignores published standards, one of them being "the Content-type header which a web server provides is authoritative" (MSIE ignores it in some cases, including text/plain and—I believe—application/octet-stream and attempts to "sniff" the content type by inspecting the data).

I've seen Opera do this too. For example, when viewing some Zilla attachments containing bits of HTML code embedded in the patch, it'll display the page as HTML even though the web server says it's "text/plain".

I'm even more disappointed since I thought Opera marketted itself as being one of the more standards-compliant browsers around. (And besides, rendering text with some embedded HTML tags as HTML screws up the text so you can't read it.)

Comments

[pthalo]

I just viewed that page in opera, and it showed as html. so i went into preferences to see what i could do about it, and i just made it display in text. i'm wondering if the option i set could also fix the problem of text emails from lj being displayed as html in opera?

what i did: File, preferences, file types. there was a radio button selected that said "determine action by file extension if mime type is unreliable" i selected "determine action by mime type" and refreshed http://hattrick.computergames.ro/htweekly/. it now displays as a text file :D

[pthalo]

no. didnt fix the email problem. *sulk*

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

A cunning plan, Miss M, have a gold star! With such logical reasoning like that, I should put you on my friends page (as well as the Emma connection)! Opera is still naughty for not doing that by default, though, unlike the wonderful Mozilla Firebird!:)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Opera is still naughty for not doing that by default

Though I'm not sure whether I changed that setting and simply forgot about it... but if you and Timwi had the same problem, then it's probably the default setting.

[pthalo]

I believe it's the default.