Finally, Opera will stop spoofing IE – I was asking for this since 2001. The whole “Opera has much more users but poor stat analyzers are fooled by it’s UI” shit. It’s one of the mantra sentences repeated by all Opera usersdevelopers.
And, what’s more important, the last “web world software dirty hack” will get it’s end. No more spoofing, every browser has it’s name, it’s features and (!!!) support standards. So web authors follow standards and everyone’s happy.
Yes. IE7 too. And, like Robert wrote, it’s extremly good news. It will not only give us (Firefox, Opera, KHTML) a chance to gain market while Microsoft will push it’s users to switch browser but also will make IE6 obsolate much earlier. Good. Good. I only want to hear one more thing from MS – that they will release next version in a year from IE7.
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Wrong. The “Opera has much more users but poor stat analyzers are fooled by it’s UI” mantra isn’t repeated by Opera users, but by Opera developers. Lots of Opera users always wanted Opera to ID as Opera by default. Don’t speak on behalf of everyone who uses it. At forum and at irc channel first thing everyone noticed was that change and was happy about it.
Malin: right. Sorry for this. I know that you’re happy about this decision as I am 🙂 Kudos to you all who convinced them (I don’t care if it was by force or not ;p) to make this step. 🙂
We’ll have to wait and see the whole situation. Things about IDing as Opera are not as simple as we thought: http://weblog.timaltman.com/node/784
IE7 is still going to be spoofing as Mozilla in the UA string.