The [API Documentation and Help][1] states:

> If the help URL is requested in a
> common web browser, a HTML styled
> version of the JSON help will be
> returned. Otherwise, the JSON help
> will be returned.

However, I would expect that adding `?type=jsontext` would override that behavior.

Also, making that request from my app also results in HTML instead of JSON.


  [1]: http://stackapps.com/questions/1/api-documentation-and-help