kchayka wrote: > I just discovered (the hard way) that a patch for > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46225 was checked in on > 11/19. My pages, which all pass strict validation, ain't got no styles > anymore. :-( Turns out the hosting service has .css files defined as a > content type "text/plain" instead of "text/css", so the stylesheets are > being ignored. I have contacted them about it, but no reply, yet. > > Are my only options at this point to: > a. use a Transitional DOCTYPE, or, > b. assuming they don't change the MIME type, move to another host? > > And is RFC2318 what I should throw in their face? > > thanks for any help > >
My host, until recently (yahoo) was using the wrong mime type. I asked them to fix it and they did. However, serving up the wrong mime type did not seem to bother the browser. It just kept me from validating the CSS with a URL (had to copy/paste for validation).
