Fwd: Re: [MacPorts] #14062: Website does not render properly in IE7

[Mark Hattam]

>Subject: Re: [MacPorts] #14062: Website does not render properly in IE7
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>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:45:51 -0800
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>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:55 +0000
>To: wsiegrist at apple.com, jmpp at macports.org
>From: Mark Hattam <mark at dxradio.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [MacPorts] #14062: Website does not render properly in IE7
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>If I save the "offered" downloaded file to disk ... change the .php 
>into .htm (or .html) ... the file then opens up in IE7 and renders 
>everything.
>
>Changing the relative links for the .css etc to absolute links, 
>makes it look good too.
>
>In doing so, I haven't changed the <xml .... at the top of the file. 
>That's still there and IE7 doesn't appear to mind.
>
>So the difference is that IE7 doesn't understand or mis-interprets 
>the type of file being sent from the server, and thinks that it 
>can't render it. Other php pages (on other sites) work fine (usually 
>:-) ), but the server is sending something "different" here.
>
>Mark
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>At 19:47 +0000 24/1/08, MacPorts wrote:
>>#14062: Website does not render properly in IE7
>>----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
>>   Reporter:  wsiegrist at apple.com  |       Owner:  jmpp at macports.org     
>>       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                   
>>   Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:  Website & Documentation
>>  Component:  website              |     Version:                        
>>Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  ie7 windows content-type
>>----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
>>Changes (by jmpp at macports.org):
>>
>>  * cc: jmpp at macports.org (added)
>>   * owner:  wsiegrist at apple.com => jmpp at macports.org
>>   * component:  server/hosting => website
>>
>>Comment:
>>
>>  I'm sure that's because of the `echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"
>>  encoding=\"$encoding\"?>\n";` declaration at the top of each of our pages,
>>  which I crafted to strictly adhere to the XHTML standard, not caring too
>>  much about how bad IE handles that particular line, I admit. I don't think
>>  it's a server level PHP issue or anything of the sort.
>>
>>  Personally I have no feeling about catering to such a broken browser as IE
>>  (there's always Firefox for Windows ;-), but I guess we could remove that
>>  line even if only for the purpose of giving MacPorts a wider net-surfing
>>  audience...
>>
>>  -jmpp
>>
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