[plt-scheme] new version of prog langs text (also making the collection work on r301.5 from svn)

At Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:33:53 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Feb  7, Robby Findler wrote:
> > At Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:27:00 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > > On Feb  7, John Clements wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > FWIW, I no longer make these URLs links.  That is, I just put the
> > > > text of the link on the web page, along with instructions on how to
> > > > use it.  What do you gain by making it a link?
> > > 
> > > Some browser may behave oddly -- I think that IE used to completely
> > > ignore generic mime types (text/plain and application/octet-stream)
> > > and using the filename suffix instead, but (IIRC) things are getting
> > > better.
> > > 
> > > If you do set the webserver up to use application/octet-stream, then
> > > things should behave fine for most browser/platform combinations, and
> > > the gain is that 90% of your potential users (those on Windows) will
> > > get Setup PLT when they click the link.
> > 
> > Annoyingly, on the mac, .plt is mapped to a graphics file format.
> 
> So it is doing the same map-if-generic-mime-type thing?  Can you see
> what happens if it gets something like `application/plt-package'?
> Perhaps that would be a good solution.

I don't know how to set up this test, but I'm happy to click a link if
you can set it up.

Robby