Posted by Michael Winter on 06/30/05 04:35

On 30/06/2005 01:49, John Dunlop wrote:

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> The link David gave - I hadn't read it until today either -
> suggests <application/javascript> will shortly be registered.

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> Bjöern's draft, if it makes it, would render <text/javascript>
> OBSOLETE, 'no longer believed appropriate for use'. Tallyho!

It doesn't really make a difference either way. Using a type other than
text/javascript is likely to leave a script unexecuted, so the
introduction of application/javascript (and others) won't mean anything
for quite some time.

I must say I'm confused though (and I don't expect you to answer this):
ECMA standardised ECMAScript in 1997. Both JScript, JavaScript, and
others have since been implementations of that language. Considering
such widespread use, why on Earth has it taken so long to register a
MIME type? Particularly as one has been required for use in HTML since
HTML 4.0 (or thereabouts), and has been around for about as long. It
would have been significant then, but it is far too late now.

Mike

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