1129265 - Ensure type attribute is present for <script> tags

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Clements]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0
Build ID: 20140314220517

Steps to reproduce:

The doctype that Bugzilla uses is HTML 4.01 Transitional which requires that <script> tags have a 'type' attribute.  However, there are many instances at https://github.com/mozilla/webtools-bmo-bugzilla where this attribute is missing, meaning invalid HTML is generated.

I noticed this in the EditComments extension, but a quick search for <script in the Github repo shows a lot of other instances across many extensions.  It would be a massive time-saving if these were fixed in one go, rather than being separately dealt with by each extension maintainer.

Comment 1

[Mark Clements]

I've just seen the following in the release notes for Bugzilla 5.0:

> Bugzilla is now HTML5 compliant.

If this is really the case (and all pages are now being served with an HTML 5 doctype) then this can probably be closed as WONTFIX (assuming support for older Bugzilla versions is not a requirement).

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

yup; bmo carries html5 specific things and we plan to upgrade to 5.0 at some stage.
making it 100% valid html 4.01 transitional probably isn't worth the effort.