[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 11641] New: Wanted: option to render HTML sent with wrong mime type as HTML
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Fri Nov 17 21:19:10 PST 2006
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11641
Summary: Wanted: option to render HTML sent with wrong mime type
as HTML
Product: WebKit
Version: 420+ (nightly)
Platform: Macintosh
URL: http://relnotes.sb.ubi.com/index.shtml
OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: Enhancement
Priority: P2
Component: New Bugs
AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at opendarwin.org
ReportedBy: rich at indieimage.com
There are a few web sites that send HTML documents with the wrong mime type,
most often text/plain. It usually happens if the document is dynamically
generated or has a less common extension like shtml, and the author never
tested it with a standards-based browser. This causes Safari (and any
standards-based browser) to display the raw HTML code as plain text.
It'd be great if Safari offered an option, via a contextual menu, to render
text/plain files as if they were text/html. The way it could work is this:
If a text/plain document appears to be HTML (such as, it starts with <html,
<?xml, <!DOCTYPE, <head, or <body), display it as plain text and add an item to
the document's contextual menu called "Render as HTML" which, if selected,
would interpret it as if it were sent as text/html.
The reason for a contextual menu, and not an item on the Safari menubar, is
that I think it should be available to any application that embeds Webkit --
like where I encountered this problem today.
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