instagram image doesn't load/show in opera mini

adit picture adit · Apr 8, 2014 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I am having an issue where an image URL that I get from Instagram API isn't showing up the image on Opera Mini browsers and it works perfectly fine on Android Browser or Safari.

Here's the image. I am not sure what the issue is here, but by looking at the URL it seems that the image is hosted using amazons3 and there might be some caching mechanism in it that opera isn't handling well. What are the workaround with these? I simply can't drop opera mini support as 50% of my site's traffic is coming from there. The best way to test this is by downloading Opera Mini on your devices (i was trying the simulator provided at the site here, but it didn't work)

Another example try opening this instagram user profile from opera mini. You can see that most of the images doesn't load up.

Answer

Pinal picture Pinal · Apr 11, 2014

Instagram render images using javascript. If you will open console in opera mini:

server:console?post=http://instagram.com/shoptastus

you will get javascript errors. So images aren't loaded because javascript on page is broken.

P.S. You can get all javascript errors using server:console?post=url in opera mini :)