144765 - speed-forums.nl - stylesheet served with wrong MIME type

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Dutch, defect)

Description

[R.A. Rothengatter]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

Mozilla don't uses stylesheed assigned in <link> tag, I have no idea why?

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.place the <link> tag on other places
2.make use of lower/uppercase
3.renamed the css file (also in the href of the link tag ofcourse)

Actual Results:  Mozilla still don't make use of the css file specified in the
<link> tag

Expected Results:  make use of the css file specified in the <link> tag

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The server is serving the stylesheet as "text/plain" MIME type, and we don't
support the "text/plain" stylesheet language.  (The type attribute of the link
element is merely advisory, although we do parse stylesheets in quirks mode when
it's used and the server MIME type is wrong.  See
http://mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/ for information on quirks and
standard modes.)  However, the main problem is that the server is sending the
stylesheet with the wrong MIME type.

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

I have confirmed this with build 2002051608 on Windows XP Home Edition.

Comment 3

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

they need to fix the mime type for css, as described in
http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/technotes/incorrect-mime-types/ .

Comment 4

[Frederic Bezies]

Contact : [e-mail]

Comment 5

[Aaron Hawley]

I wrote a page in 2000/2001 before i guess quirks mode was implemented.  and
then at one point i thought mozilla's implementation of multiple and alternate
stylesheets changed, the reason i thought my site's style broke.

anyway, over a year later and i just found this bug.  i wasn't aware of
quirks/standard mode.  perhaps there should be some feedback to the user that it
is in standard/quirks mode or complain that a style sheet was dropped.  this is
good for developers, and for web audience members who can't a page in mozilla
and have no way of complaining to web maintainers with a clear description for
why the site doesn't work for mozilla.  i believe this is another part of
pushing for a standards-compliant web (besides using a standards-compliant
browser), that people need to be able to have the tools and information to
complain about sites that don't comply.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

Reporter : is this bug still present? I get a log on box, but don't have
authorization to this page.

Is it safe to assume, based on comment 5 that this page will now render
correctly in Mozilla? If this problem is not re-affirmed in a few days I will
mark it as resolved.

If you still have a problem with this site please provide instructions to reproduce.

Comment 7

[R.A. Rothengatter]

I have solved the problem, by making a PHP file for my CSS where I send the
following header

header("Content-type: text/css");

I Still don't get my "normal" css files working. But I found this sollution
suitable in my situation.

Yours cincerely,

R.A. Rothengatter

Comment 8

[Patrick]

Fixed as per comment 7.

As to a real fix for your problem [instead of a workaround]...
My server [apache] also uses text/plain per default.

In the page i have a link to my stylesheet defined as
<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/main.css" type="text/css">

Have you tried that?

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

v

Comment 10

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

move...