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

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, July 15, 2006
5 years ago1,335 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]

5 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]

5 years ago #

ok,
english please :)

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

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

or my IE is stupid?

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

5 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]

5 years ago #

Here you go

a lot English text, sire.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticis ...

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

Kirby Witmer [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

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

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

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

5 years ago #

ohh..
whoops.. my bad..

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

my bad..

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