[OU] MIME-type for locally-populated windows

[Hallvord Steen]

> Code of the following type:
>
>    var doc = window.open("output.html", "output").document;
>    doc.open("text/plain");
>    doc.writeln("This should be plain text");
>    doc.writeln("This should be on the second line");
>    doc.close();
>
> apparently causes IE and Firefox to associate a MIME-type of  "text/plain" 
> with the contents being placed in the new window
<X>
> Is this functionality likely to appear in Opera any time soon? Is there  
> another (better?) way to achieve the intended result?

Well, you could try something like 

window.open( 'data:text/plain,First line%0aSecond line' )

or even without a MIME type (default for data: is text/plain):

data:,First line%0aSecond line

Whether that is better depends on what you're trying to do :-p

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