- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 14:05:26 -0500
- To: Sue Jordan <sjacct@worldnet.att.net>, "'W3C Style List'" <www-style@w3.org>
At 01:35 PM 28/02/98 -0500, Sue Jordan wrote: >Failure of some ISPs to support the mime type text/css has been the >subject of several discussions in the stylesheets newsgroup. My >attempt to rectify this with my ISP has resulted in this answer: > >"Unfortunately, that MIME extension is already mapped to something >else in the standard MIME.types file that comes with our servers. >Until IANA sorts out which extension goes with which application, we >will maintain our MIME.types file as close to the manufacturer's >recommendation as we can. So, for now, .css files remain as >application/x-pointplus..." > >I find that IANA shows registration for neither text/css nor >application/x-pointplus. Is this merely an oversight? If this issue >is already known, are we simply waiting for resolution of this >apparent conflict? Is there anything, short of changing ISPs, that we >can do to rectify this? If your ISP's server is Apache, you may be able to add a .htaccess file to the directory under which your CSS files are located. The contents of the .htaccess file would be AddType text/css css -- Liam Quinn Web Design Group Enhanced Designs, Web Site Development http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://enhanced-designs.com/
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