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by masklinn 318 days ago
> My favorite is type="module" which competes with the higher level attribute nomodule="true". Anyways it looks like <script> has taken a lot of abuse over the years:

It "conflicts" in the same way noscript[1] and script "conflict" no? They're basically related features, but can't really be made exclusive because the mere act of trying to do so wouldn't work: as the link indicates, executing code in a !module browser reserves the type (requires a specific set of types) so you can't use that as a way to opt in !module browsers.

[1] an other fun element with wonky parsing rules besides
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themafia 318 days ago
You can write:

    <script nomodule="true" type="module"></script>
Which is a little weird. At the very least I'd expect the type="module" documentation to say that `charset`, `defer` and `nomodule` attributes have no effect.
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domenicd 318 days ago
It does? https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#attr-s...
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themafia 318 days ago
It specifies it in the abstract. Did you mean to link here instead of to the 'src' attribute documentation?

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#attr-s....

My expectation was that this condition would have been reflected in MDNs documentation where it breaks the conditions for 'charset' and 'defer' out.

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masklinn 318 days ago
Why? MDN does not purport to be exhaustive, that's the spec's job.
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themafia 318 days ago
MDN does a pretty good job anyways. Perhaps I feel that it would be in keeping with that spirit to have this condition documented. This is partly because MDN is far easier to read for the purposes of _reference_ than the spec which is easier to read for the purposes of _implementing_. It's also easier to search and to share links to, as the link you presented earlier was both wrong and confusing, and there was no natural way to link to the part of the document you intended.

Perhaps the spec isn't the right tool for every job? That's why, for me, at least.

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moron4hire 315 days ago
Submit a change, then. MDN isn't written by some secret cabal. It's written by all of us.
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masklinn 318 days ago
> You can write:

Yes, and you can write

    <noscript>
        <script>
             ...
        </script>
    </noscript>
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