Comments on: Browser version 10 the new Y2K

By: aljames

aljames — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:27:43 +0000

They should use a hexadecimal versioning scheme! Opera A!

By: MattCoz

MattCoz — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:39:04 +0000

Just another example of the problem with UA sniffing. This happens with pretty much every release of any browser.

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:03:06 +0000

@TNO
You’re probably right … ;)
Though Opera is the oldest one *still* being used (at least to “some extend” unless you count Netscape’s 0.0000003% usage … or something – as usage)

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:36:07 +0000

@shadedecho
Opera is the oldest browser on the planet, and unless you count IE – which didn’t have updates for like *7 years* or something. It’s almost twice as old as all the other browsers on the planet *combined*…!
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So a version no 10 would be quite natural for them compared to IE (7, 8 coming) and FF with 3.x and Chrome with 1.0
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Regarding the “browser wars” BTW it seems that more people then us are beginning to plaster “best viewed with non-IE browsers” on their websites ;)
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http://ra-ajax.org/google-follows-our-tell-ie-users-the-truth-path.blog

By: ToadskinSuitcase

ToadskinSuitcase — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:51:05 +0000

Yahoo’s website says my browser isn’t supported, and shows nothing but that message, which includes Opera 9 as a choice to “upgrade”. Lame! I find it hard to fathom how companies that specialize in web content can get this wrong.

By: jackr

jackr — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:50:20 +0000

“Opera releasing too much bad code”? Not in my experience .. that would bump the minor or maintenance level numbers, anyway. IME, Opera’s number is larger because they’ve established achievable, worthwhile objectives, hit them, and released meaningful upgrades.

By: vmorale4

vmorale4 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:12:30 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me at all. Bank of America’s Online System is one of the crappiest amongst big U.S banks. Their online credit card payment system doesn’t even accept payments from other checking accounts, just BoFA ones.

By: zachleat

zachleat — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:55:52 +0000

This is funny news, but it’s this kind of programming that is hindering real progress on the web, creating a “No Code Left Behind” environment for IE.

By: shadedecho

shadedecho — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:48:40 +0000

this bad script writing (assuming one character version numbers) sucks… admittedly… but, I must also say… Opera is the first to release 10 major versions of their browser? Could that be because they’ve released (too frequently) earlier, crappier versions? :)

By: johnamartin

johnamartin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:21:17 +0000

This bug also happened when Flash 10 was released with our ad serving company. They are a big company that handles lot’s of other people’s ad networks as well.

I was astounded that the people working at this company did not know that Flash 10 had been released 3 weeks earlier and that their retarded code only looked at the first character of the version string. A simple preg replace does the trick.

Talk about retarded.