type attribute in the script element

[jackchang1]

I just went across Douglas Crockford's website, and in this page, he
mentions that the type/language attribute is not needed, since it is
the server that determines the MIME type. But according to W3C
document, the type attribute is required and language attribute has
been deprecated.

So I guess the type attribute can be omitted to reduce the file size a
little bit, but in order to be validated, this shouldn't be omitted.

[jackchang1]

On Mar 13, 4:17 pm, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

I just went across Douglas Crockford's website, and in this page, he
mentions that the type/language attribute is not needed, since it is
the server that determines the MIME type. But according to W3C
document, the type attribute is required and language attribute has
been deprecated.

So I guess the type attribute can be omitted to reduce the file size a
little bit, but in order to be validated, this shouldn't be omitted.

sorry to include the links

here are the links:
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html

[David Dorward]

ja********@gmail.com wrote:

I just went across Douglas Crockford's website, and in this page, he
mentions that the type/language attribute is not needed, since it is
the server that determines the MIME type.

In a theoretical version of HTML that doesn't exist - that is true. You
don't need to tell the browser what to expect, it can be surprised when it
makes the request.

On the other hand, if you tell the browser what to expect, it doesn't need
to make the request if it doesn't recognise the type - and the HTML spec
requires you do this.

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[RobG]

On Mar 14, 9:17 am, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

I just went across Douglas Crockford's website, and in this page, he
mentions that the type/language attribute is not needed, since it is
the server that determines the MIME type. But according to W3C
document, the type attribute is required and language attribute has
been deprecated.

So I guess the type attribute can be omitted to reduce the file size a
little bit, but in order to be validated, this shouldn't be omitted.

You should find an answer in this thread:

<URL:
http://groups.google.com.au/group/co...ef46cb24e69a22

>

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[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <11**********************@e65g2000hsc.go
oglegroups.com>, Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:20:34, "ja********@gmail.com"
<ja********@gmail.composted:

>On Mar 13, 4:17 pm, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>I just went across Douglas Crockford's website, and in this page, he
mentions that the type/language attribute is not needed, since it is
the server that determines the MIME type. But according to W3C
document, the type attribute is required and language attribute has
been deprecated.

So I guess the type attribute can be omitted to reduce the file size a
little bit, but in order to be validated, this shouldn't be omitted.

Without that attribute, how do you expect a page that uses mainly
VBscript to recognise that a particular script section is Jscript ?

DC is referring only to included *.js files in that section.

>sorry to include the links

here are the links:
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html

Some of its requirements conflict with what is agreed appropriate for
code posted here. Here, line-length should where possible be limited to
72 characters, and two (or three) spaces are considered an adequate
indent unit.

Its author is presumably an American, since he uses "international" to
exclude Anglo-American characters; the shorter word "other" could have
been used in the context.

It's a good idea to read the newsgroup and its FAQ. See below.

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