Why MSN still doesn't work with Opera

This page documents the HTML and CSS files MSN served on Feb 7, 2003. On that date, MSN changed their setup so that Opera7 no longer receives the distorted style sheet served earlier. Thank you, MSN.

However, Opera6 still receives the distorted style sheets. The table below shows that Opera6 is being served the same style sheets as Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (MSIE3). MSIE3 was released in 1996 and is no longer considered practical for surfing the web. Even Microsoft's own pages (on MSN and beyond) no longer work with MSIE3. Opera6, by comparison, is a modern browser released in 2001 and is fully able to display the same MSN front page (unless distorted style sheets are served). Classifying it along with the outdated MSIE3 is an insult.

BrowserHTML returnedSizeLinked style sheets/sizesUser-Agent string used to fetch files
MSIE3MSIE3.html31467
site.css521
scheme0.css5077
home.css22
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Update a; Windows 95)
MSIE4MSIE4.html29237
site-win-ie4.css1925
scheme0.css5077
home-win-ie4.css689
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)
MSIE5MSIE5.html29194
site-win-ie5.css1965
scheme0.css5077
home-win-ie5.css689
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
MSIE6MSIE6.html29433
site-win-ie6.css2036
scheme0.css5077
home-win-ie6.css689
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Netscape7Netscape7.html29417
site-all-nav6.css1926
scheme0.css5077
home-all-nav6.css653
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
Opera6Opera6.html31482
site.css521
scheme0.css5077
home.css22
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT 4.0) Opera 6.05 [en]
Opera7Opera7.html29269
site-win-ie6.css2036
scheme0.css5077
home-win-ie6.css689
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.0 [en]

howcome Oslo Fri Feb 7 23:38:12 2003