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"The type attribute, if present, gives the MIME type of the plugin to instantiate." That's a bit misleading in that the plugin doesn't really "have" a MIME type; it happens to support a set of MIME types though. Maybe: "The type attribute, if present, gives the MIME type for which the plugin should be instantiated."
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r4706. Check-in comment: it's not the MIME type of the plugin, per se, just a MIME type the plugin claims to support. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4705&to=4706