> -----Original Message----- > From: Tantek Çelik [mailto:tantek@cs.stanford.edu] > > > Second guessing behavior, while useful for entrenched companies to > > reenforce dependencies on implementation quirks, has > effects that are > > deleterious to the long-term health of the web. > > This is nonsense. > > There is nothing stopping web servers from fixing their > configuration files etc. to return proper mime types. > I think the issue is that the web server DOES have a correct configuration file and DOES correctly return a propert mime type - yet the browser does not obey that response header. This is especially true when 'text/plain' is used with data that has content sort of similar to HTML (there are probably other more clear examples). Another point, if the user agent does not obey a specified content-type - possibly displaying something as plain text even though angle brackets exist in the content - how will authors know that their configuration files need fixing? It will appear to be working fine and the configuration file will remain broken.Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2002 15:52:01 UTC
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