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Welcome to the IEStreamConv project!

In technical terms, IEStreamConv is a HTML preprocessor. It takes html documents that make use of IE-specific constructs, and rewrites them, turning them into something that Mozilla can understand.

There are currently two IE features it deals with:

• Conditional Comments (bug)
• ActiveX <object> tags with classid's (bug)

These are things that aren't going to be implemented in Mozilla itself

To use IEStreamConv, you'll need the ForceContentType tool. Take a look at the screenshot on the ForceContentType site here. It shows a configuration that makes broadcast.yahoo.com work, when combined with user-agent spoofing.

The IEStreamConv filter will kick in whenever Mozilla sees something with a Content-Type of text/x-iehtml.