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It doesn't work remotely any more #3

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Okay, this has been bugging me for a while, but I can't understand what's going 
on.

The file doesn't seem to work any more (it used to, though) if I link it from 
here, but it does work if I download it and link it locally.

I've stripped down a test page to the core, removing everything else and the 
conditional comments too (to be able to test it in Firefox and Chrome too) and 
it's the same.

But I just noticed that if I trigger quirks mode, it works. In standards mode 
(being it HTML5, HTML 4 or XHTML, it doesn't matter) it doesn't.

Here are my final tests:

Quirks: http://www.dimensionedelta.net/html5/tests/test-quirks.html
Standards: http://www.dimensionedelta.net/html5/tests/test-standards.html

Personally, I've solved this by linking it locally, but I'm really curious 
about the reason! Also, I think that everybody else has the same problem.

(I love this idea, by the way! Thanks!)

Best,
Francesco

Original issue reported on code.google.com by francesco.spreafico on 14 Dec 2010 at 6:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I've seen this also. 

What I believe is happening is Google's servers are now forcing a prompt to 
download the file instead of serving the file as a text/css file. I'm not sure 
when this changed. 

So IE (well, any browser as you've seen) won't be able to interpret the link as 
a CSS file and it won't work.

The solution is to download it and host it locally, as you've seen.

Original comment by lee.ream...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2011 at 3:57