[whatwg] Will you consider about RFC 4329?

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, James Kerr wrote:
> Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010, Swampert wrote:
> >> In your HTML5 draft standard, the default value for type attribute in 
> >> script element is "text/javascript". While according to RFC 4329, the 
> >> MIME type "text/javascript" is obsolete, the proper MIME type for 
> >> JavaScript is "application/javascript" or "application/ecmascript".
> > 
> > The type everyone uses is text/javascript. What's the point of using 
> > application/javascript? What problem does it solve?
> 
> I believe this has to do with character encoding issues and is the same 
> reason that application/xml is preferred over text/xml. MIME types in 
> the text/* set apparently have a default encoding of US-ASCII which I 
> can imagine may throw up conflicts in some situations given that the 
> primary and generally accepted encoding for XML and HTML documents (and 
> increasingly other applications in general) is Unicode based.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> In theory this is correct. In practice nobody follows this outdated 
> default encoding requirement.

What Anne said. In practice, text/* doesn't default to anything, it works 
just like application/* -- it's different for each subtype.

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