- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:04:13 -0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
> From: Axel Dahmen [SMTP:a.dahmen@infozoom.de]
>
> Thanks, Robin,
>
> > MIME media type, such as:
> >
> > <script type="application/x-javascript;version=1.3">
>
[DJW:] Oops. The HTML 4.01 specification is broken
here in that it uses the term media-type and uses
RFC 2045 to define it. Unfortunately, the definition
in RFC 2045 only allows "application", not even
"application/x-javascript", even though, at least the
latter was clearly intended.
> Hence, I'd like to suggest to endorse that kind of construct in HTML to
> allow cleaner implementations of script-enabled browsers.
>
[DJW:] All that really takes is to change section 6.7 of
the HTML 4.01 specification to permit (in RFC 2045 terms):
type "/" subtype *(";" parameter)
[DJW:] The difficult bit is convincing the browser writers
that not only should they not rely on Language, but they should
look at the parameters field in the type parameter - what is
in it for them?
[DJW:] (The formal correlation of type and media-type is implied
by this comment:
; Matching of media type and subtype ; is ALWAYS case-insensitive.
on the production rule for Content-Type headers, although the
narrative in RFC 2045 always treats media-type as not containing
the subtype.)
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