This is exactly where Netscape lost out to Microsoft the first time. Reguardless of what you may wish for, the standards have not been set by the W3C. Through complete market domination, Microsoft grabbed the ball and set the standards themselves. The W3C is, more or less, irrelevant. Then they got webmasters to follow "their" standards and Netscape looked more and more like the clunky hack rather than IE. And it's going to happen again to Mozilla and all of it's cousins!
Once again, we have a situation where Camino (Mozilla, etc) is, in my opinion, really going to drop the ball and lose to IE, Safari, etc. Standards are nice and all but users don't give a hoot about standards. All the users care about is that their software does what they expect it to do. Generally speaking, this means that they expect it to do what IE does BECAUSE Microsoft has, whether you like it or not, set the standards. They are going to try Camino and go to sites like http://jetsetrecords.com/default.asp or others (and I'm sure it's not alone) and find problems and they're going to say, "you know, it worked in IE & Safari so Camino must be bad." And they'll switch back and never look at Camino again.
Just my $0.02 worth (again).
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Marcello Testi wrote:
Il giorno 01/dic/03, alle 01:08, Ed Mechem ha scritto:
Well, OK. I mean, technically, that's correct. Uhm... but, right, we know that
in the real world things aren't always exactly to spec, like
"http://bla.com/bla"; gets mapped to "http://bla.com/bla/"; (server fails the
first time, then inserts the trailing slash) -- so, could there be some
(hidden? in the user.js file or whatetever) pref to have Camino basically treat
all text as HTML? Or at least, before concluding that it's *not* to be
rendered, to do one more check and see if the content begins with "<html>"?
uhm, if you check this list's archives, you'll find endless threads on the same subject, mainly about disk images (DMG) shown as text.
The 2 main parties are who thinks it's all about the sysadmins, and who thinks CAmino, like other browsers, should sniff content and override MIME types sent by the server.
I am a bit undecided, regarding binaries like disk images, but I tend to support the first option (wake up, lazy admin!) if common text files aren't served like they should.
In the case of server side scripts, like ASP, it could also be the scripter who chose to send text/plain, via custom header.
Ciao. Marcello.
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