Plaese put me off your mailing list. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Update of FAQ entry on mime type detection in browsers
> Sure. The way I had it written initially was wrong, however, because I > was saying that IE's behaviour was wrong BOTH in the text/plain and > application/octet-stream case. I now believe (correct me if I am wrong) > that IE is correct to try to guess content type in the > application/octet-stream case. However, you are right that doing so for > text/plain is plain wrong. I started to write up the FAQ entry explaining > the difference between the two cases, then I figured I would just be > confusing people, so I shortened it down to what I submitted. > > I've attached a new patch which makes it a little more clear that IE is > incorrect in its behavior towards text/plain. > > -- > Joshua Slive > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://finance.commerce.ubc.ca/~slive/ > Phone: (604) 822-1871 > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Marc Slemko wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > > > These changes just provide slightly more accurate information about > > > browser mime type detection. (I was being a little too negative > > > towards Microsoft when I originally wrote this.) The same diff should > > > work against the 2.0 tree. > > > > I think this should still be explicit about the fact that IE's behaviour > > is broken and violates the specs. > > > > >
