Comments on: Making a Better Use of Script Tags http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10176 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:54:55 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10176 @<a href="#comment-10175" rel="nofollow">Adam Kahtava</a>: True. I see many people skip it altogether. But, W3c lists it as a <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/scripts.html#h-18.2.1" rel="nofollow">required attribute</a> so if you skip it, your code may no longer validate. @Adam Kahtava: True. I see many people skip it altogether.

But, W3c lists it as a required attribute so if you skip it, your code may no longer validate.

]]> by: Adam Kahtava http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10175 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:25:05 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10175 But most browsers choose JavaScript by default. It doesn't really matter what your type attribute contains - unless you're using vbscript. But most browsers choose JavaScript by default. It doesn’t really matter what your type attribute contains - unless you’re using vbscript.

]]> by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10173 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:12:17 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10173 [quote post="2641"]Ever wonder why we even need a type attribute in the script tag?[/quote] Well, it's there to specify the MIME type of the script you are importing/embedding. Naturally as it goes with stuff like that, there is an intense flame war about whether you should use text/javascript or application/javascript. :P Oh, and you can use the script tag to embed client side vbscript in which case you'd use text/vbscript although I haven't really seen that being done much these days.

Ever wonder why we even need a type attribute in the script tag?

Well, it’s there to specify the MIME type of the script you are importing/embedding. Naturally as it goes with stuff like that, there is an intense flame war about whether you should use text/javascript or application/javascript. P

Oh, and you can use the script tag to embed client side vbscript in which case you’d use text/vbscript although I haven’t really seen that being done much these days.

]]> by: Adam Kahtava http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10172 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:40:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/10/making-a-better-use-of-script-tags/#comment-10172 John is the man! jQuery is efff'n awesome! Ever wonder why we even need a type attribute in the script tag? John is the man! jQuery is efff’n awesome!

Ever wonder why we even need a type attribute in the script tag?

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