- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 08:20:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan@gmail.com>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Ian Hickson wrote: > 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. Actually Anne pointed out to me that browsers already support text/javascript1.3, so there's no need to do that separately, the concatenation in the spec is good enough. So I've reverted this change. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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