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IE displays raw html for flax pages #57

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Browse to any Flax web page using internet explorer.

The raw html is displayed, rather than a rendering thereof.

This is a well know problem with IE not dealing properly with xhtml.

We should probably implement a work around - e.g. serve the pages as
text/html for IE.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by paul.x.r...@googlemail.com on 29 Oct 2007 at 10:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The "correct" fix is to use content negotiation to determine the mime type to 
use. 
However, this is fiddly to set up.  Alternatively, we can use the user agent to 
serve
a different mime type to IE, but this is fragile (breaks for browsers which 
"wrap"
the IE HTML component, but send a different user-agent string, for example).

An alternative fix is just to serve all our pages as HTML rather than XHTML.  I 
think
this might be the way to go for 1.0, since it's the easy fix.

Original comment by boulton.rj@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2007 at 11:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Actually, we're already serving our pages as text/html; I wonder if the problem 
is
the leading <?xml declaration.

Original comment by boulton.rj@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2007 at 11:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by paul.x.r...@googlemail.com on 29 Oct 2007 at 11:59