Because often when writing a web-based application, you have no control over what browser your end-users will be using.
And more often than not, they're going to be using IE no matter how much you might wish otherwise.
I've been bitten by the Content-disposition bug many times; telling people "just stop using IE" was never an acceptable solution.
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Because often when writing a web-based application, you have no control over what browser your end-users will be using. And more often than not, they're going to be using IE no matter how much you might wish otherwise. I've been bitten by the Content-disposition bug many times; telling people "just stop using IE" was never an acceptable solution.