I dont know sites that block opera, however lot of sites like www.ukmusic.com 
have javascript code that does not show up properly. 

Veiko

http://veikoh.wordpress.com


--- On Sat, 1/3/09, richard.trigaux <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: richard.trigaux <[email protected]>
> Subject: [svg-developers] Re: displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 7:16 AM
> --- In [email protected], "Frank
> Bruder" <redu...@...> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected],
> "richard.trigaux"
> > <trigaux.richard@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > This would not be good on a commercial site
> however, where we 
> must 
> > > have to do with our client's ways. But why
> not "Please try this 
> site 
> > > with a standard compliant browser like Opera or
> Firefox, and see 
> the 
> > > difference"
> > > 
> > 
> > Is that so? Check out Yahoo Music internet radio. Last
> time I've 
> seen
> > a list of supported browsers it only worked in MSIE.
> Right now I 
> only
> > get a "your browser is not supported yet"
> message without a link to 
> a
> > help page or a list of supported browsers, but I
> suppose it's still 
> IE
> > only. Now they don't even tell users which browser
> could be used to
> > access the service. So what I'm saying is,
> whatever you do, at least
> > it can't be worse than that site.
> >
> 
> It is even worse than that, many sites block specifically
> Opera, for 
> a reason I don't know. And they don't tell the
> user, just display an 
> error. Tis problem is well knownd from the Opera staff, I
> found it on 
> ebay/paypal, Norton, and others. This is absurd, as these
> sites just 
> lose customers, with no reason. Because of this there is in
> Opera an 
> option "appear as MSIE" and poof the error
> disappears magically...
> 
> At least with my method the user is warned.
> 
> and on my sites, I allow any browser, just detect the
> browser to 
> correct its specific mistakes, and assume unknown browsers
> don't do 
> mistakes.
> 
> 
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