Issue with "MIME types (IANA media types)": (text/javascript vs. application/javascript)

[pubmikeb]

MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

A MIME-type for JS files is noted as text/javascript, while it is obsolete and should be updated to application/javascript.
According to RFC 4329 §7.1, text/javascript is obsolete.

Specific section or headline?

text/javascript

What did you expect to see?

text/javascript should be marked as obsolete

P.S. Perhaps there are other pages on MDN Documentation where text/javascript is noted as a standard, not obsolete MIME-type for JavaScript files instead of application/javascript.

MDN Content page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/http/basics_of_http/mime_types
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/http/basics_of_http/mime_types/index.html
• Last commit: 532a80a
• Document last modified: 2021-03-26T23:24:20.000Z

[sideshowbarker]

If fact text/javascript is what’s currently recommended, per the following sources:

• https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#scriptingLanguages

  Servers should use text/javascript for JavaScript resources.

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dispatch-javascript-mjs/

  current implementations should use text/javascript as the only JavaScript/ECMAScript media type

[pubmikeb]

If fact text/javascript is what’s currently recommended

Well, you're right:

This document obsoletes RFC4329, "Scripting Media Types".

It looks like RFC 4329 is obsolete.

[sideshowbarker]

It looks like RFC 4329 is obsoleted.

Yeah — in practice it has a been obsoleted already for a long time now, but in the world of getting RFCs formally obsoleted, the wheels turn very slowly.