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Bug 12592 - Spec should prohibit some MIME types (e.g. "text/xml") implemented by user agents as script languages, even if it could contain scripts, to not break documents which use them as data rather than scripts
Summary: Spec should prohibit some MIME types (e.g. "text/xml") implemented by user ag...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-05-04 02:37 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:17 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-05-04 02:37:28 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#scriptingLanguages

Comment:
Spec should prohibit some MIME types (e.g. "text/xml") implemented by user
agents as script languages, even if it could contain scripts, to not break
documents which use them as data rather than scripts

Posted from: 121.102.72.57
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.60 Safari/534.24
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-10 22:38:08 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2011-06-10 22:43:28 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6212.
Check-in comment: Define some types that are never going to be scripting types and are therefore always going to be 'safe' to use as data format types in <script> (even though in practice authors really should be using more specific types).
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6211&to=6212
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:17:21 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1