Exactly. "But it works in IE!" I hear it all the time. It shouldn't work, no, but it does.
Yeah, sysadmins should set their servers to send the correct MIME type. Are they? No. Is there any reason you should ever see 40 MB of garbage text when you're downloading a game demo installer image? No. Push the standards while catering to those who choose to break them, for the sake of your end-users. -/- Mikey-San "Purgatory scenario #47: Imagine a band made up of the greatest musicians in history, performing for all eternity. Keep imagining it, 'cause you're stuck with the Bee Gees for a loooong time . . . " > From: Galen Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Camino List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 15:48:57 -0500 > To: Camino List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Camino] standards > > From the users point of view, they've been using IE all along and so > that's what they're use to. Suddenly they switch to Mozilla and some > sites don't look right or worse, don't load at all. Or they can't > download files because the sysadmin hasn't set up the MIME types > correctly and they wind up with 10MB of garbage on their screen. It's > easy to switch back to IE (see above paragraph) and so they do because > in their minds, IE works and Mozilla is broken. _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
