- From: Kristof Zelechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:20:07 +0200
You should rather begin with (plain text) CR LF to subvert document type sniffing. It is meant to be plain text, after all. You do not use tags in plain text, be they fake or genuine. Cheers Chris -----Original Message----- From: whatwg-bounces@lists.whatwg.org [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of gary turner Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:21 PM To: Henri Sivonen Cc: WHATWG; Ian Hickson; Gervase Markham Subject: Re: [whatwg] Style sheet loading and parsing (over HTTP) 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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