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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:56:35 +0930

Re: linuxsa-digest Digest V2001 #559

David Lloyd wrote:

>> [ I'm wondering about people with HTML mail readers, and whether the
>>   rest of this message will be flashing because of the tag in my last
>>   paragraph :-) ]

> No, probably because it recognises the MIME type as text/plain as
> opposed to text/html.

Internet Explorer (yes, I know we weren't talking about Explorer) is
notoriously bad for taking any notice of what the content type is set
to; even sticking HTML within a file of type image/jpeg will get it
rendered as HTML under certain circumstances, which makes its use of
"Security Zones" pretty pointless.  Microsoft are keen not to fix this
(and have just iterated this on Bugtraq), as they see it as a "feature"
(probably an innovative one).

> Precisely, nonetheless I still think Internet Explorer is a good browser
> :-)

And one day, they may even get non-anonymous FTP to work properly.
It's only been broken since 3.x.

-- 
Regards,
  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.

"You shouldn't mix meditation with management.  The mind gets too empty."
  -- Dilbert

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