- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:32:50 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 04:52p +0200 09/16/2000, Bjoern Hoehrmann didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >* "Stephanos Piperoglou" <stephanos@webreference.com> wrote: >| I have no idea how to fix this, since it's basically a bug in IE. > >No. It's Netscapes fault not to register a MIME type for javascript and use >application/x-javascript instead. The use of non-standard (as marked by the >x-) MIME types in a world wide medium is strongly discouraged but Netscapes >forces us to do so. And they've been doing that since before JavaScript existed. Example: charset=x-mac-roman in META tag. >This problem will rearise, if ECMA does not register a correct MIME type for >ecmascript. Y'know, there really ought to be a "law" against using experimental types in any software labeled as "final" (i.e., not dev/alpha/beta). How long does it take to get something registered? 2 months? 2 years? How long did it take circa Netscape 1.0? -Walter
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