[thelist] What is wrong with this site?

[Jeff Howden]

joe,

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> From: Joe LaChapell
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> The content type is text/plain ... therefore somebody
> wants the output to be text/plain.  IE is changing this
> to display as text/html, which may not be the intended
> output, but IE says that it "should" be.  End users and
> developers alike should think this is horribly wrong.
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again, as evidenced by the original request, the developer doesn't always
intend for their work to be sent as text/plain.  ie is doing its best to
protect the user from this mistake.

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> IE is overriding the developers intended output.  You
> don't see this as a problem? What other assumptions can
> be made that are "good" for the end user?
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closing tables with missing </table> tags.

closing fieldsets with missing </fieldset> tags.

.jeff

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