Re: IE ignores text/plain (again)

Message-Id	<2637869.LZWGnKmheA@PointedEars.de>
From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
Date	2011-05-24 20:55 +0200
Subject	Re: IE ignores text/plain (again)
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Andreas Prilop wrote:

> Internet Explorer (v: 6, 7, 8; Windows: 2000, XP, 7)
> ignores again "Content-Type: text/plain" as shown by

Not *again*! (1d/2d)

>  http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp-5.text
> 
> In my experience, IE treats the above document as text/html.
> 
> By contrast, the document
> 
>  http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp-4.text
> 
> is treated as text/plain by all IE versions I could find.

AISB (in de.ALL), it is the DOCTYPE switch.  The "IE versions" you "could 
find" range from being proclaimed dead to out-of-date.  There were not meant 
to deal with HTML5 pseudo-DOCTYPE declarations.  (The funny thing about this 
is that it disproves the HTML5 people when they say that `<!DOCTYPE html' 
suffices for backwards compatibility.)

No message is that important that it needs to be multi-posted and cross-
posted at approximately the same time.  Certainly you could have waited with 
multi-posting until you had gotten responses in one top-level hierarchy or 
were considerably sure you would not get any there.  That is what I would 
have done.

See also <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum>

I do not think this belongs in ciwb.ms-w.  F'up2 ciwa.html.

PointedEars
-- 
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

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IE ignores text/plain (again) Andreas Prilop <prilop4321@trashmail.net> - 2011-05-24 16:49 +0200
  Re: IE ignores text/plain (again) "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-05-24 18:54 +0300
  Re: IE ignores text/plain (again) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-24 20:55 +0200
  Re: IE ignores text/plain (again) "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 18:53 -0400
  Re: IE ignores text/plain (again) dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2011-05-25 10:11 +1000

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