Hi, On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:34:19 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:10:17AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > >> Following the usual procedure in such cases of trying simple changes, > >> I changed the file extension to '.html' & Epiphany now has no problem. > >> Does anyone have any comment on this strange sequence of events ? > > With HTML, the philosophy is that the parser tries to carry on, > > even with lots of errors in the HTML code. XML is much stricter > > and an error is much more likely to be treated as fatal. > > Well in that case (raises eyebrows), one has to ask > (1) why does Gentoo offer its docs in such a strict format It offers it in text/html (MIME type as transmitted by the web server) > & (2) why there is a bug in the XML sufficient to stall the browsers. It's not XML (there's no real "file name extension" concept in URI-land). You probably saved it under a file name resembling the URI, thus leading your browser to the assumption it might be XML - and it has to make assumptions for file:// requests, since there's no "Content-Type" on plain file systems. The conceptual failure is the part that circumvents this (unreliable) detection algorithm by saving that file by a name ending in ".xml" (my browser doesn't even offer ".xml" as a preset for the file format when trying to save the HTML page of the user guide). -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
