- From: Braden McDaniel <braden@lnk.com>
- Date: 18 Jun 2002 12:54:56 -0400
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:39, Chris Lilley wrote: > On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 5:29:41 PM, Braden wrote: > > > BM> On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 08:40, Jim Ley wrote: > > BM> [snip] > > >> 5.1 Notes on text/ecmascript > >> > >> By the best of the author's knowledge, this Media Type has been > >> introduced by the SVG [SVG10] specifications. It is beeing used > >> there and defined as the default value for the 'contentScriptType' > >> attribute of the 'svg' element. > >> > >> I'd again suggest that it was never the place of an SVG working group to > >> invent a mime-type for ECMAScript. > Other options being > > a) pick "javascript" instead (netscape copyright name, poorly documented) > b) pick "jscript" instead (microsoft copyright name, poorly documented) > c) leave it wide open and say scripters are on their own > > None of these seem appealing to me. > > BM> Furthermore, the type simply is wrong-headed. "application/ecmascript" > BM> is appropriate. > > because ..... In addition to the text Jim quoted from RFC 2046, 4.5 includes, "Expected uses for the 'application' media type include file transfer, spreadsheets, data for mail-based scheduling systems, *and languages for 'active' (computational) material*." (emphasis added) Braden
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