- From: Matthew Jordan <matthew@howgreatthouart.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:20:17 -0400
- To: www-validator@w3.org
I believe a warning about the redundancy of the "type" attr would help to encourage reduction of the size of a document's markup in general. I like HTML5 because of its semantic markup. And, being a minimalist coder, I love not having to use excess or redundant attributes when I don't have to. On 10/20/11 6:45 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 19.10.2011 18:37, Matthew Jordan wrote: > >> I noticed that when checking HTML5 documents, the validator does not >> throw a warning about the use (in this case being present) of the "type" >> attribute in style and script tags. > > Do you think it should? As far as I can see, current HTML5 drafts > don't make that attribute obsolete, deprecated, discouraged or > otherwise flamed in a manner that would require that a warning be > given. The attribute is just redundant, not bad. > > There's a related question: What happens when the attribute is present > and its value is pragmatically wrong, as in <style type=text/css> or > <script type=text/javascirpt>? Nothing, it seems. The validator does > not check the value against a list of types that are actually useable > in these contents - or even registered as MIME types. It only checks > that the value is _formally_ of the general format for MIME type names > (so e.g. <style type=text\css> would be detected). >
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