On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:19 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > > Whilst mining a large list of URLs, I came across some sites that render > incorrectly in WebKit but fine in IE. > > It turns out there exist some sites which declare themselves standards > complaint in their HTML via their DTD. These sites then proceed to try and > load CSS resources with the incorrect MIME type. This promptly fails due to > standards mode. > > e.g. > http://web.pcc.gov.tw/ uses application/x-pointplus > http://www.emart.co.kr/index.jsp uses application/css > http://www.fotocolombo.it/shop/index.php uses text-css (note the hyphen in > place of a slash) > application/octet stream also appears to be a favourite. > > > That's unfortunate. Out of curiosity, how do these sites behave in Firefox? > Broken, in the same way. Fine in IE. > What is "enforceCSSMIMETypeInStrictMode()"? Is it a global setting or is > there some per-page metadata somewhere? > > > It’s a setting for applications. For web browsers it is set to true. It is > not per-page. > > > We can relax the MIME type list we enforce for "strict mode" without > breaking ACID3, although I'm not even sure that's desirable? Is it worth me > worrying about this at all or is the correct solution that these sites are > just broken and need to fix themselves at some stage? (Pragmatically, I > worry that these sites will never fix themselves so users of WebKit-based > browsers are SOL). > > > Sounds like a tough choice. It would be unfortunate to have to have a white > list of sites that violate this rule. > I agree we don't want to be listing sites. Our options would seem to be: - Do nothing - Permit application/x-point-plus and application/css as valid CSS MIME types. This would fix some unknown number of sites, and retain ACID3 compatibility. (ACID3 checks for CSS load failure with text/plain, I think). Cheers Chris > -- Darin > >
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