Re: update "Authoritative Metadata"/ contentTypeOverride-24 based on HTML 5 spec?

Yes, see: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=Content- 
type%3A+text%2Fplain

This bites me on a recent page I wrote where I tried to serve the  
html source as a link to ".txt" copy of the source. This doesn't work  
on IE. See:

http://hcls1.csail.mit.edu:8890/map/#Kcnip3@2850,Kcnd1@2800

I was trying to be welcoming to new to sparql/ajax programmers by  
providing a link to the html source. But you just can't view the html  
source code without writing a second copy with all sorts of things  
escaped. And you shouldn't have to.

Is this what HTML5 is looking to sanction?

-Alan

On Aug 17, 2007, at 11:26 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> The proposal makes it impossible to view certain types as plain
> text, even though that is a known mechanism on the Web for viewing
> HTML source that should work with compliant browsers.