Not only do they not support Opera they like to treat the 5% of the internet market which uses Opera with contempt.
This is the message you get when you try to access their service:
Can't hear you (browser not supported)
We're not ignoring you, just your browser. Sorry, but all the new features on
Whereis can't talk to your browser.
We have made sure you can use Internet Explorer (we'll listen to IE 6 and
above), the latest Mozilla Firefox or Safari on Whereis. So why don't you
try one of those instead?
It's no surprise that whereis is operated by sensis a subsidiary of our favourite home-grown near-monopoly corporation, Telstra.
Telstra spends most of its time not listening to its customers also.
So, no, whereis.com I won't download the browsers you think I should use. I will use Google maps or NRMA instead.
Travelmate works in Opera, in a slightly crippled way, but keeps popping up dialogs that say "EBA XML library is not supported in your browser".Nice of you to blog your response, but did you also inform whereis? If you don't, then they won't know you've refused to take their advice.
ReplyDeleteYes I did. I fired up the epiphany browser to get to their "feedback form".Actually it took a couple of goes to blog this- for some reason it didn't get saved the first time (probably PEBKAC) and in the first draft I mentioned that I did just that.Previous feedback to whereis doesn"t offer much hope for change. They used to show the church as being further down Mooloobar St than it is- in the next "block" on the edge of the lake in fact. I took a screen shot and drew in an arrow showing where we should be and sent it off. I got a reply later saying that they couldn't just change things without a screen-shot. Two years later we were still in the wrong place.It is really strange that in an era of standards, they still can't get it right. Opera tried to comply totally to the published standards and gets kicked in the knees for it. The attitude of many web developers seems to be make it work in IE then tweak it for FF and the rest can get knotted.
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