Friday, May 14, 2004

mime types

There are some things in the computer world that are just completely frustrating. I was trying to configure mime types for my BOSS right now on his mozilla browser. He says it was working fine two days ago and it just stopped. So I started to look into trying to figure out the correct mime type, and I found different sites saying differernt things. And none of the solutions would work. Mozilla would just not show the right mime type. So I logged into the server, changed the file from a .wmv to a .avi, and it works.

But it was a frustrating half an hour trying to figure out what the hell was happening, and even more frustrating when you could'nt figure that out.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...