Re: Scripts...

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.

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Nick Kew

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