Re: outputting javascript from a php script?

Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: > That's actually quite a difficult question. > What you're basically asking is what is the mime-type of a javascript file. > > The answer is that it is officially 'application/javascript'. > However, this has only recently been published as part of the standards. I am aware of RFC 4329[1], but that is only "Informational", and it dates back to April 2006. Is there any other standards document specifying "application/javascript"? > Until just a few years ago, there was no agreed mime-type for javascript > files; this is why you'll see text/javascript, application/x-javascript, > etc. being used all over the place. > The HTML4, html5 and xhtml (1 and 1.1) speccs all expect a > text/javascript mimetype when using javascript. > > In the end... it doesn't really matter that much. You could technically > send a mime-type of text/plain and it would still work just fine. This > is simply because most browsers don't trust the headers sent but tend to > take a peek into the first packets sent, and decide what it contains > based on that. > > So... I'd personally use application/javascript since that's the > official mime-type. But it doesn't really matter that much which one you > use ;) Unless you have to support old IE. AFAIK, IE 8 ignores scripts with an "application/javascript" MIME type. [1] <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4329.txt> -- Christoph M. Becker