What does do?

This answer was posted several years ago and now the question really should be should you even consider using the X-UA-Compatible tag on your site? with the changes Microsoft has made to its browsers (more on those below). Depending upon what Microsoft browsers you support you may not need to continue using the X-UA-Compatible tag. If you need to support IE9 … Read more

What does do?

This answer was posted several years ago and now the question really should be should you even consider using the X-UA-Compatible tag on your site? with the changes Microsoft has made to its browsers (more on those below). Depending upon what Microsoft browsers you support you may not need to continue using the X-UA-Compatible tag. If you need to support IE9 … Read more

Different between ./ , ../ , ../../ , ~/ on file path(URL) in asp.net

These path components are shortcuts with specific meanings: . means the current path level (so if you’re on index.aspx and you reference ./style.css then the latter would have to be in the same folder as the former) .. means one path level up (so if you’re on /somefolder/index.aspx and you reference ../style.css then the latter would have to be in the parent folder of someFolder) / means the root … Read more

What is a MIME type?

A MIME type is a label used to identify a type of data. It is used so software can know how to handle the data. It serves the same purpose on the Internet that file extensions do on Microsoft Windows. So if a server says “This is text/html” the client can go “Ah, this is … Read more