Hi Dejan,
You wrote:
I thought nothing of the fact that I have not seen such a result in IE6 and Mozilla 1.7.
Mozilla 1.7.5 still proudly displays an ugly BOM, IE doesn't.
Hmm--very interesting. I have not seen any BOM effects even though I use Mozilla at home (IE6 at work) so I downloaded XVI32 and checked some of my files composed and saved in Notepad, some with ctrl-s and some using Save as, choosing the UTF-8 encoding, and have yet to find one with a BOM at the beginning.
Do you suppose Microsoft fixed Notepad when they coded Windows XP?
As long as you have a web server on your intranet it shouldn't do any difference to the browser, it's just documents coming from the network. It's files from your disk that will miss the http headers.
The setup at work was never intended to serve HTML. We have a program that runs things like payroll, work scheduling, and inventory that runs on the LAN; we also use the F:\ drive bit to share Excel and Word files. So, I can use an HTML file from a floppy disk, the C:\ drive, the F:\ drive, passed to me as an internal email attachment, or even from a flash memory unit on a USB plug in. AFAIK, **all** my files are missing the http headers.
Regards,
Gene Falck, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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