ECMAScript Media Types Updates
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DISPATCH                                                       M. Borins
Internet-Draft                                                 M. Bynens
Updates: 4329 (if approved)                                       Google
Intended status: Informational                                 M. Miller
Expires: May 3, 2020                                             Mozilla
                                                               B. Farias
                                                        October 31, 2019

                     ECMAScript Media Types Updates
                 draft-ietf-dispatch-javascript-mjs-05

Abstract

   This document proposes updates to the ECMAScript media types,
   superseding the existing registrations for "application/javascript"
   and "text/javascript" by adding an additional extension and removing
   usage warnings.  This document updates RFC4329, "Scripting Media
   Types".

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Background  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     4.1.  Common Javascript Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       4.1.1.  text/javascript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.2.  Historic Javascript Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       4.2.1.  application/ecmascript  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       4.2.2.  application/javascript  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       4.2.3.  application/x-ecmascript  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       4.2.4.  application/x-javascript  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.2.5.  text/ecmascript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       4.2.6.  text/javascript1.0  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
       4.2.7.  text/javascript1.1  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
       4.2.8.  text/javascript1.2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
       4.2.9.  text/javascript1.3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
       4.2.10. text/javascript1.4  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       4.2.11. text/javascript1.5  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       4.2.12. text/jscript  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       4.2.13. text/livescript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       4.2.14. text/x-ecmascript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
       4.2.15. text/x-javascript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   5.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     5.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     5.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20

1.  Introduction

   This document updates the existing media types for the ECMAScript
   programming language.  It supersedes the media types registrations in
   [RFC4329] for "application/javascript" and "text/javascript".

2.  Background

   In order to formalize support for modular programs, [ECMA-262]
   (starting with 6th Edition) defines two top-level goal symbols (or
   roots to the abstract syntax tree) for the ECMAScript grammar: Module
   and Script.  The Script goal represents the more stand-alone
   structure where the code executes in the global scope, while the