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  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Expert dev. Doesn’t even know the attribute for setting the language in the script tag is type, not lang. Not to mention that you are encouraged to omit the attribute altogether if the script tag contains JavaScript…

    Petty, and a bad dev. Big yikes.

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      4 days ago

      To be fair, it’s not as if it supports languages other than fucking Javascript anyway, so it mostly doesn’t matter.

      Edit: I don’t want to split hairs about modules or json or whatever; I just want to be salty about how we could’ve had Scheme or Python in the browser.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        The type attribute is not only to specify the language. It’s like one case out of several. It definitely matters in those contexts where you want to do the other things you can do with the type attribute.

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        4 days ago

        We could have had VM languages also like C# and Java and had web that was actually fast.

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      4 days ago

      Well the script tag has a deprecated attribute called language, so in older code and media you will see <script language="javascript"> a bunch. The weird thing is they instead used the lang attribute which just doesn’t exist.

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      There used to be a language attribute, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen lang before.