- From: gary turner <gary.kk5st@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 15:20:51 -0500
Henri Sivonen wrote: > <snip> > > I was serious. If you want to display plain text in the browser content > area, it seems that prepending "<plaintext>" and sending it as text/html > is more likely not to invoke sniffing than sending it as text/plain. > This use case doesn't require an end tag. > Ah. That, "prepending", gives me a better idea of your meaning. Eg., a file, source.html, containing <plaintext> <html> ... </html> would not be sniffed by IE, and would be rendered as plain text. Where normally, the file, as source.txt, with its text/plain content type, and without the <plaintext> tag, would be sniffed by IE and rendered as an html document. If a UAs were to simply honor the server response header, it would obviate the need for such an inelegant work-around. Thanks for the clarification. cheers, gary -- Anyone can make a usable web site. It takes a graphic designer to make it slow, confusing and painful to use.
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