- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:24:33 -0500
- To: Philip Taylor <pjt47@cam.ac.uk>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Philip Taylor wrote: > > http://quickstarts.asp.net/Futures/ajax/doc/components.aspx uses > <script type="text/xml-script"> > for embedding XML which gets interpreted by some other JavaScript code. > No UA could ever process that XML natively like a proper script, since > it would conflict with the JS's handling of the XML. > > http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/canvas3d/examples/simple/simple20.html > uses > <script ... type="x-shader/x-fragment"> > for embedding OpenGL shader programs. It would never make sense for a > browser to execute the code directly, since it only works in the context > of a complete OpenGL environment. > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Dec/0238.html says > "we use the <script> tag with a Backbase MIME type" as a container for XML. > > But http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#script just says "The script > element allows authors to include dynamic script in their documents", > and does not acknowledge the use of <script> as a non-executable > container for text which has an associated MIME type and can be read by > other scripts. FYI: Silverlight uses 'text/xaml'. And the content is well-formed XML. - Sam Ruby
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