[thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser

"Czechowski, Aaron" wrote:
> 
>         Not that I'm defending the folks in Redmond for this, but AFAIK,
> since IE is now becoming more and more part of the OS and less and less a
> stand-alone web browser, it's pulling the file type from the OS as defined
> in the registry, which is based upon file extension.  The MIME type is part
> of it, but ultimately it's the extension that defines the file in the
> Windows world.  So unless Microsoft pulls IE apart from Windows, we're stuck
> with how Windows deals with the files and not the browser....

Right - but shouldn't the server be at liberty to tell the browser what
a file is?

The server ought to know better than the client what filetype it's sending.

As far as the bundling issue - it's not very bright to treat foreign
servers in the same way as the local filesystem or local network.

	- Joe
 _________________________________________________________
 Joe Crawford { ArtLung } _________ mailto:joe@artlung.com
 Web Developer + Designer  ________ http://www.artlung.com
 Former Respiratory Therapist _____ San Diego  . CA .  USA
 San Diego Web Developer? Go to http://www.websandiego.org