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Bug 9526 - Replace "text/javascript" with "application/ecmascript"
Summary: Replace "text/javascript" with "application/ecmascript"
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6684
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-04-15 08:09 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-22 10:32 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-04-15 08:09:37 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#script

Comment:
Replace "text/javascript" with "application/ecmascript"

Posted from: 188.46.179.29
Comment 1 Axel Dahmen 2010-04-15 08:16:21 UTC 
Discussions are ongoing that JavaScript is not a text type but an application type. Furthermore, the term "JavaScript" is also to be replaced by the non-branded ECMA-Script:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4329.txt

Corresponding MIME types already exist.

I believe the upcoming HTML standard should reflect these discussions and use "application/ecmascript" instead of "text/javascript" as the preferred MIME type of script files.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-15 08:35:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6684 ***