On Sunday 26 April 2009 20:09:02 sashee wrote: > IE's have many issues. Which one you mean by the MIME type one? > Btw, it's a standard way of obtaining an xmlhttprequest object, cross > browser. If the user uses IE6, it's his problem imo.
IE will display what it thinks to be HTML even if the MIME type is "text/plain", or even "application/octet-stream". This means that malicious freesites will be displayed without going through the content filters (HTMLFilter), and can compromise users' anonymity. It can be fixed via a registry setting, but that's not really a solution. Hence we do not support IE, and we tell users so when they try to access Freenet with IE. Is IE6 still officially supported by Microsoft? IE7 is available for XP iirc? IMHO we can quite happily have our javascript fail on IE6, provided it falls back to the non-javascript operation, or fails in a reasonable way. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090427/5e74454f/attachment.pgp>
