Hello
I have a shopping basket on our website that uses Javascript and Cookies to store orders on our customers PC. They can view the contents of our shopping basket by simply going to this page any time:
http://www.innerbookshop.com/trade/bbasket.aspIf you look at the page (even with nothing in, just click it) in all browsers it will display correctly, except Opera though. If Cookies and Javascript are enabled it will also be able to store items in the shopping basket too in all modern enough browsers, except Opera again. In Opera the basket table is displayed after all the rest of the contents of the page are shown and it is also allways empty, even if you have just added something.
I have occaisionally looked into this and most people say Opera "What on Earth are you bothering for, nobody uses it" but I am a bit of a perfectionist. I am only thinking of the 0.1% of our customers (I'm being generous) a year that may not be able to use our site. It would be nice to tidy this up but there is no real budget for a shopping basket rewrite. The one we have works on new and old machines and OSs and as most of our customers use old computers, we have to retain as much backwards compatability as is possible at all times.
Is there a known issue with Opera and how it deals with this sort of thing? I emailed Opera themselves but got no repply. We don't use the login system for customers as our orders are processed on dispatch not on order, so only sensitive information is encrypted leaving the shopping basket outside our shared SSL. This is my last attempt, else I am going to put a lable on our help page saying 'Don't bother with Opera'.
Any help or pointers would be greatly recieved,
Alex Bennett
Webmaster
The Inner Bookshop
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