Hello Ulrich.
Just one point: Most of the workarounds do not work with C2 (did you
ever try them with C2)? The one you described with a content disposition
unlike *.pdf works, but it is not acceptable for the user (who expectes
to open the pdf in the browser window and could not do the additional
steps saving to disc and displaying).
And a second: I downloaded your example from ulim/iebug and experimented
a bit with it. If i save the generatet pdf in a file and put it in the
same directory and call it, it works in all browsers, including IE 5.5.
How do you explan this? There should be no difference between the
streams?
And third (*personal opinion*): If you develop cocoon applications for
the internet, you have do deal with the millions of installed IE's out
there (market share about 70%), it is difficult to not support it. And -
let all political aspects alone - the IE is definetly the better
product, concerning accuracy of displaying HTML Pages, Framesets etc.,
Speed and stability. And with Netscape discontinuing the Browser at all
IE will widespread even more. Please, i know Microsoft has a bad
reputation in open souce communities (with right, of course), but this
is my personal opinion and experience from serveral Intra- and
Internet-projects in the last few years.
So i'm still not sure if its really (only) an IE Bug, and that there are
still possibilites to optimze this in cocoon.
Stefan
> That being said, there are two currently known workarounds, both
posted to
> the list recently (setting a content-disposition header or configuring
> Acrobat as external application). Perhaps you have discovered a third
> workaround. But it is not ok to use these workarounds, instead we all
> should discourage people from using IE by *NOT* supporting its bugs.
We
> are talking about intentional bugs here, introduced to undermine the
> OpenSource and standards movement.
>
> Plus, it's happened three or four times before: every time we find a
> workaround, Microsoft will change IE in the next version to not
support
> this workaround anymore. Then we have to find a new workaround, which
will
> work until the next version - but the users of the older versions of
IE
> will not be supported anymore. We are not helping users if we go into
a
> coding competition with Microsoft.
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