On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:48:50AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Allan Wind wrote: >> On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: >>> Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the >>> movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy >>> the WMV file to the browser, which would then decide whether to play it or >>> display it as text. >> >> The web servers probably returned different content types, and the browser >> behaves differently based on that. >> > > This is somewhat OT, but I actually wish there was some way to *make* > iceweasel display something as text? I sorely miss that bit of > functionality. I second that. It's particularly annoying on a foreign machine that may not have things setup properly. nothing like gnome trying to use less to view a text file and having it die because it's not in a terminal. THere should be a "force to open as text in new tab" option in the ol' right click menu... A
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