[thelist] text/plain for html files
Bill Mason
evolt at accessibleinter.net
Sun Nov 23 11:05:51 CST 2003
fstorr wrote:
> Am I right in thinking that if I specify a content-type of "text/plain"
> on an html file (with a .htm(l) exension) that the browser should render
> it as plain text and not parse it as html and thus ignore things like
> linked external CSS files?
>
> I've tried to do this with a page using:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1" />
>
> but with no joy - it still gives me HTML in Moz and Opera. Is this right?
If the server's mime type is still text/html, then Mozilla will use that
since the server setting gets priority over the META tag.
IE will not care what you serve as either way: it will deduce the file
is HTML by examining the content, and just render it as HTML.
Don't know what Opera does, but there are obstacles enough already. ;)
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Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
evolt at accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/
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