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Anyone ever get the problem in the screenshot below while using firefox? This is the only site I have ever had this problem for some of the sub-pages on ( http://www.bodykits.com ). Note: This DOES display correctly in IE :



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shows fine in here.

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
shows fine in here.

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well the main page shows fine, but try clicking a sub link like the Spoilers or hoods section...

The page http://www.bodykits.com/Spoilers/Spoilers is sending the wrong content-type header, text/plain. It should be text/html...

It shows as text here.

I'm not sure if this is a bug in FF or in MSIE, but is looks like the hader sent by the server makes it show the browser like plain text, although "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">" was added.

If the server header says it is text, the browser must not pay attention to html tags (not even that content-type one), so it's just left as text.

I'm pretty sure MS inbuilt a detection for html pages ignoring the content-type header (that wouldn't be the first time MS ignore W3C guidelines). So it's probably a bug in MSIE that this is shown.

Anyway, that's a poorly coded script/site.


A Firefox bug? I have some serious doubts about that.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
If the server header says it is text, the browser must not pay attention to html tags (not even that content-type one), so it's just left as text.

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Yeah... IIRC, the standards say that HTTP headers override <meta> tags.

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
A Firefox bug? I have some serious doubts about that.

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Me too, because Opera shows it exactly the same way.

Not at all a Firefox bug, it's a webserver bug; or well, misconfiguration. Willingly made like that or not, I don't know, but what I do know is that I've seen this before. The only thing it means is that you have entered the land of the incompatent, lameassed, ignorant, irritating, spoiling, webdesignerscriptkiddynoobs, meaning, you better run before it's too late, and never, ever, come back!