Answer by Andy Young for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
👉🏻The HTML5 specification urges authors to omit the attribute rather than provide a redundant MIME type.MDNThe MIME Sniffing Standard lets JavaScript be served using any MIME type (Multipurpose...
View ArticleAnswer by brennanyoung for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
If you're putting a script tag inside SVG you must specify the type attribute. And it should be "text/ecmascript" rather than "text/javascript". If your script is inline (not linked) you will need to...
View ArticleAnswer by Blesson Jose for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
type="text/javascript" : Required in HTML 4 and XHTML, but optional in HTML5.CDATA : Required in XHTML.<!-- : Used to hide the JavaScript from very old browsers. Eg: Netscape 1 and Internet Explorer...
View ArticleAnswer by Mithun Sreedharan for Do you need text/javascript specified in your...
The type attribute identifies the scripting language of code embedded within a script element or referenced via the element’s src attribute. This is specified as a MIME type; examples of supported MIME...
View ArticleAnswer by Sergey Orshanskiy for Do you need text/javascript specified in your...
Well, I am tempted to say that nobody is using text/javascript any more, and that even minification tools would probably remove it...Indeed, Facebook SDK documentation specifies just <script>....
View ArticleAnswer by bdukes for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
See Crockford's write-up on the <script> tag, most notably:Do not use the <!-- //--> hack with scripts. It was intended to prevent scripts from showing up as text on the first generation...
View ArticleAnswer by hellatan for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
it's up to the browser to interpret the script block correctly based on the headers, i believe, and not the type attribute. So to answer your question, no it is not required for modern browsers (i'm...
View ArticleAnswer by gen_Eric for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
HTML5 doesn't need the type="text/javascript" (it's the default).CDATA is only neeed for XHTML pages, if the script has any HTML characters (like '<' and '>') in it.<!-- should only be needed...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
Well i keep seeing more examples without the text/javascript but for some reason my scripts wont work in FF when i do so. I would recommend keeping the text/javascript declaration. The CDATA tag...
View ArticleAnswer by FatherStorm for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
you may be thinking of this article here with the dependency being that scripts default to text/javascript in HTML5 automatically, while non-HTML5 browsers still expect that you define the type...
View ArticleAnswer by Pointy for Do you need text/javascript specified in your tags?
It's a Crockford recommendation. I know I've seen it echoed elsewhere (ppk maybe?). The HTML5 spec does not require it.Oddly, it's become somewhat au courant to use the "type" attribute to mark...
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I read somewhere that you no longer need things like type="text/javascript" and the weird CDATA and <!-- things in your script tags. So, instead of:<script...
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