- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 07:30:46 +0100 (BST)
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- cc: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>, <www-validator@w3.org>
On Sat, 11 May 2002, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Ville Skytt wrote: > >Maybe a nitpick thingy, but I'd rather not recommend using > >"text/javascript" since it is not officially registered in IANA [1]. > > > >"application/x-javascript" would IMHO be a better, more established > >choice, that's what for example Apache sends by default. See also [2]. > > Using private media types in a public envoirement is worse to me than > using a not-yet registered type. But this is offtopic here... On the contrary, that's exactly what "x-[anything]" media types are for: a type known to one or more Client or Server, but not registered. And it's not *very* offtopic either: if, for instance, we were to contemplate a javascript validator then it would become very relevant indeed. -- Nick Kew Available for contract work - Programming, Unix, Networking, Markup, etc.
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