Hymagumba wrote:I was reading something yesterday and it says the W3 say that "if a content header is not present the browser may attempt to guess"
That´s right, at least from waht I have understood. Wich means that Internet Explorer actually does it wrong (no surprise). Bad thing is that it solves the "problem".
Hymagumba wrote:I'd agree with thumperward though - it is very easy to fix this problem on a server and surely any host who cared about their customers would comply with requests of this sort as it's very simple and only needs done once.
I think no one is arguing about that. The miss-configuration is easily fixed and any good host should fix it also. But - that requires that the user acutally knows this and that´s where I mean that the problem is. This is causing average users to blaim Firebird = bad reputation = bad reviews and since the most important marketmethod is "mouth-to-mouth", well this is a problem.
And there are already some non-standard functions in the Mozilla code - blinking text and marquee support. They got in there due to the Chinese market (I think) so how about the rest of the market then? .