June 14, 2005

JavaScript is no longer x-rated

At least, not exclusively. The content-types for Mozilla accepting files as JS have just been expanded. As a result, there are a number of new content-types, including (at least for now) application/javascript and application/ecmascript.

It's still too early to propose a widespread change to our source code, removing all those little x- sequences, as the new content-types have not been approved by IETF.

Thank you, Brendan!

Posted by WeirdAl at June 14, 2005 5:24 PM
Comments

Actually the fix for bug 62485 was trivial - the real issue has been getting the new types registered, and the person putting in all the work for that is Björn Höhrmann. He's the person that we *really* owe a debt of gratitude to. That's not to belittle Brendan's role though. His insistence that the new types be registered before we would support them is what kicked off Björn's work, and in the long run this will have done a lot for compatibility.

Posted by: Jonathan Watt at June 15, 2005 9:34 AM