[whatwg] Will you consider about RFC 4329?

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:32:01 +0200, James Kerr <locki at l0x.in> 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.

In theory this is correct. In practice nobody follows this outdated  
default encoding requirement.


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