On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:08:07PM +0100, Martin Creutziger wrote: > > Hmm . . . let me toss an idea into the ring: > > *nix-Webservers (e.g. Apache) use magic-files to determine the filetype. > So does OS X. > So why not use the OS X magic-file to do a little content-sniffing in files > sent as text/plain? > If the system used can handle it, it will be in the magic-library. If not - > display as text. > > But: this should *only* be true for binary and stuff like that. If a > webmaster is too lazy to configure the output of ASP right or sends HTML as > text/plain my mistake, The browser should display it as text! (I agree with > Marcello at this point, then)
For text, IMHO, there should be a menu command such as "Render this page as HTML," which would allow the user to display the page properly, instead of forcing them to use another browser to display the page. -- GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9D5B8762 _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
