Comments on: Yahoo pulls Google move; New Yahoo Site blocks Opera browser

By: Kamalesh

Kamalesh — Wed, 17 May 2006 23:32:49 +0000

Note that new Yahoo site blocks Safari2 (I’m using Tiger) also, FYI. These big search engines don’t fully support the Mac default browser, either…bizarre.

By: Joey A. Tyson

Joey A. Tyson — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:20:23 +0000

I wouldn’t be too concerned about this - Opera 8.5 on WinXP is an A-grade browser in the Yahoo dev team’s support chart. They say they plan to support more browsers in the coming weeks, and I’m guessing Opera will be included, at least for Windows. And once Opera 9 is finalized, it will likely be supported as well (and A-grade).

When Yahoo first released this new page design, it did so on a lottery basis to IE users only. Now they’re showing it off to anyone with IE or Firefox. By the time it hits live, I’m sure you’ll see wider support.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 17 May 2006 12:48:08 +0000

Pankaj, install this UserJS file to display XML documents as a tree, just as Internet Explorer does.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:45:48 +0000

Yahoo can’t code it’s web pages properly? Does that befit a “corporation” of such a size? Or it has hired ex Microsoft employees/ rejects from Google?

Just wondering. In any case,Yahoo isn’t offering any “earth shattering”/ must have application online which would make life “hell” without it.

Gmail doesn’t still work properly in my Linux version (I have no reason as to why), but with PoP access, who cares? Hence, the best way is to deny them the ad revenue which otherwise I might have been tempted to click out of curiosity. Yahoo/ Google ain’t starving as yet. However, with a mass of people boycotting them out of their idiocies, they MIGHT just be willing to “listen”. Money does get arrogance, but it also gets loads of stupidity.

By: Pankaj K S

Pankaj K S — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:16:58 +0000

If opera could display the xml documents in the tree structure like in IE it would be much better.

By: Pankaj K S

Pankaj K S — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:15:17 +0000

I have been using Opera for past 2 years and would say I can't even think about switching to another browser. Its features are great whether tabbed browsing or session saving or notes or bookmarks or popup blocking. Another feature Voice is simply great. It works well though I have not been able to issue the opera commands still I could listen to the document which opera read for me. In addition you have download manager and an emai-client. What else do you need? I hope opera would get better & better every day.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 17 May 2006 02:54:59 +0000

Mag-X, it looks fine in Opera 9. Yahoo could still detect browser versions and allow Opera 9. But even if Opera 8.5 is the latest stable version, why then does Yahoo not support it?

By: Mag-X

Mag-X — Wed, 17 May 2006 02:43:11 +0000

The search box and “My Yahoo!” and “My Mail” buttons are out of place in Opera 8.5. Since it is the latest official release, that could be why. I don’t know about 9.0 since I’m not home right now.

By: rseiler

rseiler — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:40:07 +0000

Is this even remotely surprising? After all, My Yahoo *still* doesn’t work completely with Opera (e.g. when editing items like sports teams or weather), or is it vice-versa. And it’s been at least a year now since the redesign.

By: nolovelust

nolovelust — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:57:18 +0000

i hate ppl like yahoo webmasters! let us decide wich browser would worjk better

By: kL

kL — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:44:32 +0000

They’re blocking everything except IE and FF. Even browsers on same engine as Firefox (Camino, K-Meleon) are blocked. It’s soo lame.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:06:31 +0000

Dennis, very odd indeed. Are the Yahoo developers not in-synch with each other?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:00:26 +0000

It workes with /beta. Very odd.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:41:18 +0000

James, correct. Webmasters should follow standards. I mentioned Opera-compatible since Opera follows most of the standards out there. It passed the Acid2 test.

By: James Baud

James Baud — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:32:01 +0000

Don’t you have that backwards? Shouldn’t webmasters make their sites standards-compatible, not Opera-compatible?