On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Sjur Moshagen <sju...@mac.com> wrote: > According to this page: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101394/javascript-mime-type > and many others on the net, application/javascript is the correct answer, but > not accepted by MS IE ≤ 8. Which leaves us with text/javascript. But several > places (including the above) argues that leaving it empty is fine, and the > most compatible. I have no strong opinions, though, just that 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]. --tim [1] - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types
