We all hate SOPA. And we all love Wikipedia. We understand the protest and support it, but what if we need to see wikipedia pages during SOPA blackout?
As with all files on the Internet, each needs to have a MIME type assigned. It is the responsibility of webmasters to make sure their files are properly served. With "text/*" MIME, browsers / search bots respect the MIME type provided and treat files as html or text content. Favicons also needs correct MIME type in order to be used by browsers.
Did you know that IE7 does not understand some of CSS properties depending on how classes names are written? How? Here is answer.