In the below context what is the significance of ” text”.
<script type = "text/javascript"> </script>
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It is a hangover from when MIME types were less clearly defined. At the time it indicated that the data was text (as opposed to some kind of binary data).
Today it means “Is a text based format designed to be human readable (as well as machine readable)”.
This is why the
text/javascriptMIME type has been deprecated in favour ofapplication/javascript.