- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0004@earth.li>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:00:07 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
At 2001-06-06T09:42+0200, Jochem Heicke wrote:- > As there had been some messages about > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Script-Type" > CONTENT="text/javascript;"> > > recently. I would like to ask for a clarification. > > As I understand this, the above META should signal the > browser to add > "javascript:" to every EVENT handling statement. No. It tells the browser that the values of event attributes should be interpreted as the specified language, in this case JavaScript (although no text/javascript MIME type has actually been registered). > Would this mean in practice that without that META you > should better add > "javascript:" and with that META you MUST NOT? It should not be added in either case. The value of each of these attributes is a script, not a URI. (There is no javascript: URI scheme either, FWIW.) It is an error to use these attributes without specifying the default scripting language. > If it is that way than the VALIDATOR should give some > WARNING. The W3C validator is a strict SGML validator, and therefore cannot be expected to cover anything not expressed in the SGML declaration and DTD. There have previously been suggestions that it might generate warnings about other errors in a document in the future. If this were to happen, then it might, for example, detect the use of intrinsic events without a default scripting language. Tim Bagot
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