[Catalyst] Re: How are you handling multiformat URL

[Alan Humphrey]

> because IE chokes on XML (but insists that you send it XML anyway...

Is this still true with IE7?  Yes, IE6 will be around for a while, but is
there any hope on the horizon vis-à-vis IE?

- Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Rockway [mailto:jon at jrock.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:01 AM
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Re: How are you handling multiformat URL
> 
> John Napiorkowski wrote:
> > Also there are really stupid user agents that need the
> > extension.  For example I have an application that
> > embeds some flash video.  Now this uses the video
> > component that is part of flash 8 or something and it
> > seems to absolutely require that the file name of the
> > flash video be "something.flv".  Even if I set the
> > content type to video/x-flv which is what the
> > documents say, and I specify a filename in the content
> > disposition unless that file has flv at the end it
> > just won't play.  So unfortunately we need to deal
> > with this, but also set things up right so that when
> > the user agents get smarter we are already set up for
> > it.
> 
> This is the problem with using the good features of HTTP.  People that
> don't read (or worse, aren't aware of the existence of) the standards
> are doomed to implement them incorrectly.  *sigh*.
> 
> There's a similar problem with IE sending */* as the first thing in
> Accept header and then text/html as a lower priority option.  This means
> that if your application outputs application/xhtml+xml by default (which
> it should), then IE will claim that it wants that instead of degraded
> text/html.  This is incorrect, of course, because IE chokes on XML (but
> insists that you send it XML anyway). *sigh*.
> 
> Here's an analogy - a non-native speaker of English comes up to you and
> asks a question in perfect English.  You reply in English.  The person
> asking the question then gets upset because he expected you to answer in
> French.  That's what IE does.
> 
> My solution?  If the standard is over 5 years old, use it.  If nobody
> uses new features, we're going to be stuck in 1993 forever.
> 
> If you care about revenue coming in from IE users, just send some google
> ads along with the "your browser sucks, and so do you" page ;)
> 
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
> 
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