Question

Do you need text/javascript specified in your

Answer 1

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It's a Crockford recommendation. I know I've seen it echoed elsewhere (ppk maybe?). The HTML5 spec does not require it.

Oddly, it's become somewhat au courantto use the "type" attribute to mark <script> blocks that you don't want to be evaluated:

<script type='text/html-template'> <div> this is a template </div> </script>

By giving a weird non-JavaScript type, you get a way to stuff raw text into the page for use by other JavaScript code (which is presumably in script block that can be evaluated).

Answer 2

HTML5 doesn't need thetype="text/javascript" (it's the default). CDATA is only neeed for XHTML pages, if the script has any HTML characters (like '<' and '>') in it. ... Thetype attribute specifies the scripting language of the element's contents and overrides the default scripting language.