Yahoo feeding bad code to Opera browser makes the browser look badly coded.
After some issues appeared when using Yahoo (Web) Email with opera and being ignored by the Yahoo Customer Care, I decided to do some research and to my unpleasent surprise I found quite some places that talk about how Yahoo is breaking Opera browser. Being a software engineer made it easy for me to convince myself of this. I will now try to convince all of you out there that this is indeed happening.
This is "the thing" that outlines probably the best way this issue: http://operawatch.blogspot.com/2005/11/yahoo-discriminating-against-opera.html
You will find more of such reports regarding issues related to yahoo services that have the same root problem in opera community: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/group.dml?id=45961
I have made some more or less random selections:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=112448&page=1#comment1319356
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=112623&t=1134570256&page=1
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=114049 (problem number 4)
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=112448
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=116604
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=116604
you can find much more from the opera community search: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/search.dml?term=yahoo&id=
And the worse thing is that Yahoo Customer Care, the place where you would expect a human (not a machine/software/etc) to respond to your emails, is actually a big, bad joke: template and generated responses make the law there. No chance of getting to a competent human.
This is why I want to show everbody that:
- yes, there is a problem with yahoo software when it comes to opera and it's generally yahoos fault
- yes, we want a way to communicate to yahoo the problems we find and we expect to communicate to humans and not some programs/scripts.
These are the informations regarding the bug report I have sent to Yahoo Customer Care:
[info]
Mail-Id: 1132822330-1703
Type of feedback: Bug Report
Problem area: Managing and storing messages
Error message: Incorrect behavior
How often this occurs: Always
Browser: Opera/8.51 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
REMOTE_ADDR: 82.77.x.y
REMOTE_HOST: unknown
Date Originated: Thursday November 24, 2005 - 00:52:10
[/info]
Why do I have to change my browser just to make use of a function that worked before? Before someone wants to answer that question, he/she should first read this: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=61946 and http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=36940 . Opera is pretty good and stable so the main question is: why try to break it? Why try to make it look as being full of bugs?
Will this ever come to an end?
