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ONLamp.com is supposed to be a resource for developers and users of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python) systems. To limit the survey to Windows users by using Zoomerang’s survey system is obviously short-sighted. Hopefully next time they’ll choose a more tolerant survey system, maybe even one that utilizes LAMP technology.
(I could have changed Opera’s User-Agent string to report as Mozilla or IE but that’s not the point)
It’s interesting that they decided to block Opera and not Mozilla, since the few differences I’ve found are fairly easily worked around. On a side note, you’ll be happy to know that using the version of IE on my PDA, tylerdave.com is very readable. It knows about tables, so most pages that use tables for layout have major horizontal scrolling. But since you use div’s, the left and right columns just appear above and below everything else. It has no support for CSS at all, so all the text is unstyled, but it’s all good.
I’ve run into occasional “Your browser is outdated! You can’t see our site until you upgrade!” messages using Opera 7 as well, usually on large corporate sites. It reminds me of when “This Site Best Viewed Using Netscape 4″ disclaimers were ubiquitous.