161257 - Release Notes (1.0 ~ 1.4rc3) incorrect regarding stylesheet MIME type requirements

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Description

[Malcolm Rowe]

Per bug 161236, the current (1.0) release notes are incorrect where they talk 
about the requirements for external stylesheets to be delivered using the 
text/css MIME type.

The release notes current state:
When a page using a strict document type declaration (e.g. HTML 4.01 Strict) 
links to an external style sheet (using <link>, @import, etc.) Mozilla will 
load the style sheet only if it is served with a MIME type of "text/css". 

This is incorrect, as it is not the strict DTD that causes this behaviour, but 
the document being rendered in 'standards' or 'almost standards' mode (see 
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/quirklist.html and related 
documents).

This should be fixed for 1.1.  The correct text should probably be something 
like:
When a page is rendered using 'standards mode' or 'almost standards mode' links 
to an external style sheet (using <link>, @import, etc.) Mozilla will load the 
style sheet only if it is served with a MIME type of "text/css". [Rest of para]

Style sheets with other MIME types will only be loaded if the page is rendered 
using 'quirks mode'.  See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/ for 
more information about different rendering modes.

Comment 1

[Malcolm Rowe]

Switching to the right product and setting keyword.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To endico.

Comment 3

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

Owen is taking QA for "repeating relnote" bugs. Sorry for the spam; search for
the previous string to find and delete these messages.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

fixed

Comment 5

[Malcolm Rowe]

v

Comment 6

[Owen Marshall (Not reading bugmail)]

*bugspam*