Posted by Michael Winter on 06/30/05 16:59

On 30/06/2005 08:44, John Dunlop wrote:

> I can see one workaround [for unrecognised types:] Write a custom DTD
> in which the <type> attribute of SCRIPT is optional.

I don't really see that working, though. Browsers don't actually read
the DTD, so they're unlikely to care whether you want the type attribute
to be treated optionally. Moreover, and as I said to Ian, an omitted
type attribute is different from a specified, but unrecognised, MIME
type value. The former could permit a reasonable guess (some ECMAScript
derivative), but the latter must cause a script to be ignored.

> Then you can send your javascript files with the MIME type
> <application/javascript> and have them executed by at least some
> browsers.

Care to name any? :)

I could be wrong of course, and I would have no problem with that, but
as I see it these registrations are less than useless for the time being.

Mike

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