Trust the MIME
September 1st, 2004 by Kelson. Posted in BrowsersVia Weblog about Markup & Style:
An excellent example of why a browser shouldn’t second-guess file types.
(For those who’d rather not spend the time to look, it’s a screenshot of Safari looking at a text document… but the first line mentions XHTML, so it’s decided that’s what it must be. I’ve had lots of trouble with Internet Explorer doing the same thing, and Safari’s been aiming at bug-for-bug compatibility in order to “break” as few sites as possible.)
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