BlameThePixel!

Maybe he wants to suck up to CB.

You are all officially owned.

GUESS WHY?

If you write valid XHTML with the valid header it needs (Content-Type: application/xml+xhtml;charset=XXX) and view it in IE, it says WTF is application/something something?!?!?! OMG BBQZ1 So I need to use this script to sniff it out and give text/html.

</pwning>

WRONG

Congratulations, you fail at HTTP content negotiation. IE is not the only browser that fails to correctly display content with a mimetype of application/xml and it's variants. All browsers send a header to the server that says what types of content they can accept, and what type they prefer - a good sniffer script will uses this to vary the mime-type dependant on what the browser says it can take.

Meh, browsers other than IE that don't support it aren't megapopular are they? Since my sites aren't very popular, I don't think it matters.

IE is popular...

RunT's useless facts:
The guy at Microsft who codes and designs IE, actually uses Firefox as a browser


Anywyas, yesh IE is popular becuase most the world use Windows, hense use IE as their browser.

EXCACTLY

IE is the only one worth bothering about... other browsers really should just update :/ it isn't hard

Or maybe IE should update =/

I think IE updates too much really. IE should have the security of Mozilla, and the look of IE.
The perfect browser.

It doesn't update for me. Mind you, I disabled updating because that SP2 patch kept trying to download. It was a waste of memory.
IE should have popup blocking and plugins instead of updating bugs no one notices

So what happens when IE7 comes out and supports xml mime types, your script will still send them a dodgy page.

Browser sniffing is bad, you should always vary content according to what the browsers says it can accept.

And c1, IE does havw popup blocking you just need SP2

SP2 doesn't support WA though The map loader doesn't work when I install the SP2..

Must be something wrong with your machine or operating system C1.
I have XP SP2 and everything works fine my end.

I don't know if my IE is more broken than usual, but it doesn't even seem to be sending the Accept header properly. When I visit http://bugs.rdmsoft.com/httpaccept.php it says:

Your accept header was: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*

...without even mentioning that it prefers HTML to any random type. Worse, when I refresh the page it just sends */*.

(My workaround is to just check for the type you'd rather send to see if it's in the header at all, since XHTML browsers generally do things properly and sending as text/html by mistake won't do much harm.)

Runt. Think about this. How could my machine be blamed for the map loader not working? Perhaps I could blame my worms disc or the SP2, but not my computer.
I have XP.