Site compatibility: No content for you!

January 17, 2008 · by Haavard

An interesting type of "browser discrimination" can be found at linie888.dk. This was first reported as a bug through our bug tracking system, and I decided to look into the problem. I opened my source viewer and braced myself for a lengthy session of code analysis.

Imagine my surprise when this is what I saw:

<html>
	<head>
		
		<title>Abildskou</title>
		<meta name="generator" content="Kubus Sitebuilder">
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
		<meta name="description" content='Abildskou rutebiler fra Jylland til Sjælland'>
		<meta name="keywords" content='bus rutebil 888'>
		
		
	</head>
		<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
			
		</body>
</html>

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. That BODY tag is completely empty!

If you mask as Firefox the site's content appears, so it looks like the server has basically decided that Opera users don't need access

This is probably just an error on their part, but it is yet another example of things that can't be addressed by bugfixes or added functionality in Opera.

Readers' comments 4

Left under the original article, as archived.

GuillermoThursday, January 17, 2008 5:47:40 PM
Well, I'll not been using Kubus Sitebuilder to create my sites anytime soon.

At least konkeror users get a better message:
Sitet understøtter ikke din browser.....
edvakfThursday, January 17, 2008 10:27:22 PM
OMG! wordless....
Unregistered userFriday, May 30, 2008 9:32:42 PM
Anonymous writes: Always love these. The idiot who built that site uses frames, something that no self respectig designer would consider at this time and uses ASP on an IIS server. With all that M$ code it's a wonder anything displays on any browser.
ronbuMonday, February 2, 2009 5:28:16 AM
Since then the webmaster has changed the code and it now works fine in Opera identified as Opera.