On 1/4/06, adasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The same complaint from the same user or from a different user?


No, same complaint from different users.

If the same user, well the windows registry allows all manner of mis
> configurations that are difficult to trace. Otherwise you are right, it
> must
> be an ancient setup for IE5+pdf that Tapestry "gets on the wrong side of".
> I wonder if that is fixable without intefering with everything that works
> for the 99% of your users, though?


I have decided to let it slip. I can not reproduce the problem. One user
with this bug still uses Windows ME as OS. It has to be a registry setting,
I can not think of anything else.

Something to detect ie5 as the client and alter the doc type accordingly?
> You may have to get down to versions and patches though as some precise
> configurations require.
> BTW, aren't you also referencing some css? If so it maybe this ie5 then
> associates with pdf.


Yes, I am using CSS, but IE5 should work to some extent with CSS styling,
shouldn't it?

Adam
>
> On 04/01/06, Marcel Schepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/4/06, Markus Eberle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > [...] What mechanism is used by IE, what triggers IE, to launch
> > > > a PDF viewer? Is it the doctype? Or the content-type?
> > >
> > > Most of the time the IE honors the content-type, if this tells it is
> > pdf,
> > > the
> > > pdf application is launched.
> > > Perhaps you have a rare occasion, in which the wrong content-type is
> > sent?
> >
> >
> > That was my also my guess, but the content-type is set to
> > 'text/html;charset=UTF-8'
> > and never changes.
> >
> > Just in case: Are your sure, the user, who sent the screenshot is not
> > > kidding
> > > you?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I am sure.  A few weeks ago I received the same complaint. At that
> > time
> > it sounded too weird to be real, so I dismissed it without  having a
> look
> > at
> > it.
> >
> > Marcel
> >
>

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