- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:45:14 +0300
- To: Matthew Jordan <matthew@howgreatthouart.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
19.10.2011 18:37, Matthew Jordan wrote: > I noticed that when checking HTML5 documents, the validator does not > throw a warning about the use (in this case being present) of the "type" > attribute in style and script tags. Do you think it should? As far as I can see, current HTML5 drafts don't make that attribute obsolete, deprecated, discouraged or otherwise flamed in a manner that would require that a warning be given. The attribute is just redundant, not bad. There's a related question: What happens when the attribute is present and its value is pragmatically wrong, as in <style type=text/css> or <script type=text/javascirpt>? Nothing, it seems. The validator does not check the value against a list of types that are actually useable in these contents - or even registered as MIME types. It only checks that the value is _formally_ of the general format for MIME type names (so e.g. <style type=text\css> would be detected). -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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