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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:33:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: Javascript mime type
From: Tim Williams <williamstw@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Tim Williams <williamstw@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Sjur Moshagen <sjurnm@mac.com> wrote:
>> According to this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101394/javas=
cript-mime-type
>> and many others on the net, application/javascript is the correct answer=
, but not accepted by MS IE =E2=89=A4 8. Which leaves us with text/javascri=
pt. But several places (including the above) argues that leaving it empty i=
s fine, and the most compatible. I have no strong opinions, though, just th=
at the present mime type definitely is wrong :)
>
> I'd go with text/javascript - it's a reasonable default.  It's worth
> noting that we serve it as 'application/javascript' because that's the
> default mime-type mapping for httpd[1].

Ooops.. dangling pronoun:( "we" =3D=3D forrest.apache.org :)

--tim