Re: VoiceXML 2.1: mandatory script media types

* Matt Oshry wrote:
>As specified in 5.3.12 of the VoiceXML 2.0 specification, ECMAScript 262
>is the required scripting language for VoiceXML; no requirements were
>specified on the media type(s) that must be accepted when fetching an
>external script. To maintain backwards compatibility with VoiceXML 2.0,
>VoiceXML 2.1 will not impose any new requirements in this vain.

Could you elaborate on why it is important to maintain backwards
compatibility here and not for all the other new requirements in
VoiceXML 2.1? Why is it a good thing that VoiceXML 2.0 does not
gurantee support for a specific media type? Should authors use non-
standard media types like application/x-javascript as the VoiceXML
test suite does?
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Received on Thursday, 17 November 2005 22:29:17 UTC