Scripting Media Types

[ned.freed at mrochek.com]

> * ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:
> >The fact that these subtypes of text are in widespread use leads me to suggest
> >an alternate approach: Why not register them, but mark them as obsolete with a
> >pointer to the type that should be used instead? The registration will then
> >serve two purposes: To make it clear what the types contain when they are used
> >and to also make it clear they should no longer be used.

> The draft states that text/ecmascript is expected to be deprecated in a
> future version of the document.

There is no defined process for deprecation of a media type. The closest
thing we have is marking the type as being obsolete, and the media types
registration procedure specifically calls for this to be done "when use of
the type is no longer appropriate". This IMO matches the present case
exactly.

> This basically means text/ecmascript
> should not be used in a context where application/ecmascript could be
> used as well. Marking text/ecmascript as obsolete does not allow making
> such a distinction as far as I can tell,

Actually, it makes exactly this distinction, one that deprecation does not
make.

> and I think the registration
> should acknowledge that users of the types do not have much of a choice
> at the moment.

That's exactly what registering the types as obsolete does.

				Ned