Re: The script language attribute

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Philip Taylor wrote:
> 
> I had a quick look at 16K of the pages from dmoz.org, with results at
> http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/misc/stats/scripts2.html - that indicates
> that the most popular script@language values are:
> 
>   "javascript"
>   [missing attribute]
>   "javascript1.2"
>   "javascript1.1"
>   "javascript1.3"
> 
> and the most popular script@type values are:
> 
>   "text/javascript"
>   [missing attribute]
> 
> and all the rest are relatively insignificant (less than 0.2% of these 
> pages, and less than VBScript).
> 
> Given that data, to help new UA developers to support existing content, 
> I believe it would be good for the spec to say that 
> language="javascript1.(1|2|3)" must be treated the same as 
> language="javascript".

Done.

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