diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
index f498398a2..fd21432fa 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
 		$meta{$page}.='<link href="'.urlto($stylesheet, $page).
 			'" rel="'.encode_entities($rel).
 			'" title="'.encode_entities($title).
-			"\" style=\"text/css\" />\n";
+			"\" type=\"text/css\" />\n";
 	}
 	elsif ($key eq 'openid') {
 		if (exists $params{server}) {
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 72775cf54..e02b714fa 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,9 +7,12 @@ ikiwiki (2.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Support building on systems that lack asprintf.
   * mercurial getctime is currently broken, apparently by some change in
     mercurial version 0.9.4. Turn the failing test case into a TODO test case.
-  * Fix links to stylesheets when usedirs is enabled.
+  * Fix links to alternate stylesheets when usedirs is enabled.
+  * Use type= not style= in html for alternate stylesheets, which is more
+    correct (but in my testing both epiphany and iceweasel work ok with
+    style=text/css).
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:18:34 -0400
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:28:47 -0400
 
 ikiwiki (2.3) unstable; urgency=low