[thelist] What is wrong with this site?

Joe LaChapell lacjoe at wsinc.com
Mon Aug 18 14:17:38 CDT 2003


Jeff,

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.  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?

(no offense intended, just bringing up a discussion point).

:)

-joe

Jeff Howden wrote:

> simon,
> 
> 
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>>From: Simon Willison
>>
>>This is a classic example of IE being horribly, horribly
>>broken.
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> 
> 
> that's your opinion as a developer.
> 
> however, from a non-technical user's perspective, this is the sort of thing
> a browser should do automatically.
> 
> so, even as a developer, i see it as a good thing.
> 
> .jeff
> 
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