Talk:Client-side JavaScript

Merge with JavaScript

I have proposed a merge with JavaScript, please see the talk page in JavaScript. Bamkin 19:02, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Reference to base2 project

I think it's useful to create a reference to the base2-project [1] in the section Incompatibilities, but since I'm a project member, I rather think someone else should change this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doekman (talk • contribs) 10:25, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Js-hello world.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

MIME type

According to <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4329.txt>, the "new" MIME type for JavaScript is "application/javascript" and not "text/javascript". As I do not know if changing this works well with contemporary webbrowsers, I better leave it for someone more knowledged... 84.189.219.143 (talk) 00:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I added something about the missing support for application/javascript in Internet Explorer. Maybe someone can rewrite that section to clarify it a bit.
78.27.52.235 (talk) 22:20, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Save-As

What is the rationale behind not allowing Client-Side JavaScript to invoke a 'Save-As' dialog? I can't imagine that the security would be any different than linking to a file, since both could contain identical information and could be called at the same time. This seems to be crippling - "you can make any app you want in JavaScript, so long as you never need to save a file." JavaScript could truly become the 'does everything' programming language if it had this one ability. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.192.2.92 (talk) 07:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

type="application/javascript" in Wikipedia sample codes considered harmful (obviously)

Unless otherwise specified in the article for some purpose, it should be assumed that a JavaScript sample code is designed to work with Internet Explorer. That should mean type="text/javascript" should be used instead of type="application/javascript". One person's idea of ideal IANA compliance shouldn't get in the way of the users' and framework developers' intention of writing cross browser code. In example code, "application/javascript" should not replace "text/javascript" without reason and especially without warning. Furthermore "text/javascript" is supported in HTML 5 and it is the default type attribute value when not specifically coded. —Tokek (talk) 11:03, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Citation Needed

"Older browsers typically require JavaScript to begin with:" Which older browsers require this? Cmcculloh (talk) 19:52, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

[I moved this new thread to the bottom, where it should be]. You're right, that section contained a lot of barely comprehensible outdated tosh. I've tried to tidy it up, but it's time to move this article into the 21st century generally. --Nigelj (talk) 20:57, 12 March 2011 (UTC)