Those bassturds!

[Jammrock]

Google's Gmail just gave Opera users the shaft! If you log in to Gmail, even with Opera 8 beta which works perfectly with Gmail, you are presented with a stripped down HTML-only version of Gmail:

If you sign in to Gmail using a browser that isn't fully supported, you'll automatically be directed to a basic HTML view of our service. To make sure that you can always access your mail, we’ve developed this basic HTML view that is compatible with almost any browser.

Since your browser isn't fully supported, you might notice that some of your favorite features aren’t available in the current view, including the following:
Filter creation
Settings
Spell checker
Keyboard shortcuts
Address auto-complete

For access to all of Gmail’s features, sign in to your account from a fully supported browser, and make sure you have cookies and JavaScript enabled.

Those bassturds!!!!!!!!

Jammrock

[az]

I've read in the Opera forums that logging in from the following link might help (you can apparently then choose basic html or pimped-out view)

EDIT: log in first, THEN go to this URL. I'll post a button to do that later, if I remember to.

http://gmail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser

Rest assured come Opera 8 final, gmail will work flawlessly; either because Opera can convince them that this stupid anti-opera policy is gaining them nothing, or because Opera will then spoof certain javascript functions that gmail uses for browser sniffing. just spoofing the user agent is not enough, because gmail does more advanced checks.

If this interests you, http://my.opera.com/forums/forumdisp...?s=&forumid=31

AZ

[PAugustin]

Nice, thanks for the link

[az]

EDIT: I unfortunately can't post Opera buttons anymore.

Sasq, if you read this: Can we either get HTML back (only for certain user groups like supers, or mods, or people who are registered longer than a year or something maybe?) or can you tweak the [ url ] so that it doesn't prepend http:// when the address starts with opera:/? This would be really useful.

AZ

[az]

Get the button from here (scroll down to non troppo's post).

AZ

[Jammrock]

Thanks for the link Az! I've avoided using FireFox once again