#1594 closed defect (wontfix)
IE 7 does not recognize mime type when Rev Tree clicked
| Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | Emmanuel Blot |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | RevtreePlugin |
| Severity: | critical | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.10 |
Description
IE 7 does not recognize mime type when Rev Tree clicked. However, under Firefox it's working correctly. I am attaching a screen-shot to describe the problem better.
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Change History (6)
Changed 17 years ago by
| Attachment: | ScreenShot144.png added |
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comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by
looking into this mime type more, I found out that RevTree returns 'application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8' which according to this: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx IE does not support.
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comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by
Here is how this problem could be fixed at apache level.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-tipapachexhtml/index.html
comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
As documented in the RevtreePlugin page, IE (6, 7, ...) browsers are not supported and won't. RevtreePlugin may work with IE some days (who knows...), but it won't be supported.
I just don't want to spent time supporting such a buggy browser, and I don't want to trash the code just to meet M$ non-standard web requirements ;-)
Trac already sports workarounds for the sake of IE compliance, whereas other browsers work fine without this mess. I won't do the same for this plugin. Sorry IE users, you'll have to switch to a real browser or not to use the plugin.
application/xhtml+xml is the proper mime type to use: the generated code is pure XML, and text/html is an invalid type for the generated code: RevtreePlugin do not generate HTML, but XHTML strict with embedded SVG.
Last time I tried embedded SVG w/ IE 7, it failed to render the page anyway.
comment:4 follow-up: 5 Changed 17 years ago by
The problem is that a lot of us in locked down corporate environments are stuck using IE... I would love to use this plugin, but it doesn't sound like we'll ever be able to :(
comment:5 Changed 17 years ago by
Replying to anonymous:
The problem is that a lot of us in locked down corporate environments are stuck using IE... I would love to use this plugin, but it doesn't sound like we'll ever be able to :(
Time to convince your boss that IE is not a reliable web browser and that it does not support W3C standards ;-) If they do not like open source software, maybe they are ok w/ Opera?
I don't think RevtreePlugin will ever work with IE, and I don't think IE will ever work properly.
Print screen of the error message.