- From: Johannes Koch <koch@w3development.de>
- Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:24:12 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
James Justin Harrell schrieb:
> The HTML 4.01 specification claims that the value of
> the script element's type attribute should specify a
> content type, and that a content type is a MIME type.
>
> It references RFC2046
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046) which specifies
> that text media types (text/***) should be treated as
> US-ASCII by default.
And HTTP 1.1 (RFC 2616) defaults to ISO-8859-1.
> However, if the value of the type attribute should
> really be treated as a MIME type, it's strange that
> the script element has a charset attribute since MIME
> types can also specify a character encoding.
Not a MIME type can specify a character encoding, but a Content-Type
message field can specify a character encoding via the charset parameter.
--
Johannes Koch
In te domine speravi; non confundar in aeternum.
(Te Deum, 4th cent.)
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