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How come m.gmail.com doesnt work with IE?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, July 15, 2006
18 years ago3,711 views

try to login to this page m.google.com via FF
it works? good,
now try to login to the same URL via IE.
youll get a funny message and some sort of a download file which you can not download..(for some reason)

anyone knows why?

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

m.google.com redirects to google.com

but the m.gmail.com is wml I guess

Header:
Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

check application/xhtml and not text/xml

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

ok,
english please :)

m.gmail.com should lead you to a mobile version of Gmail

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

forgot something –
on firefox,
however,
IE doesnt do that..

or my IE is stupid?

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

gnarr :D

the server (m.gmail.com) sends an application/xhml+xml Content-Type to the server. And IE has no idea what to do with it.

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

Here you go

a lot English text, sire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticisms_of_Internet_Explorer#XHTML

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

lol
so basically IE is dumber than FF.. (as we all know for a couple of years now)

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

IE7 supports this application?
(if you have IE7 :P)

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

dunno, i am not goint to install a beta of a microsoft product

Kirby Witmer [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

m.google.com works for me in IE 6.0. :)

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

really?
ive tried entering this URL in couple of places and it doesnt work..
thats odd :/

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

<< m.google.com works for me in IE 6.0 >>

Me too. But http://m.gmail.com doesn't – for the reasons Corsin's already explained...

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

18 years ago #

ohh..
whoops.. my bad..

ive tried entering this URL (m.gmail.com).. not m.google.com..

my bad..

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