Re: Google's HTML5 Stylesheet

"Jens O. Meiert" <[email protected]> Thu, 10 May 2012 00:25:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.validator.css
Message-ID <CAJ0g8QTM+u_eDStOx7N_=JcrVT6TL5eWC7WcMOxoM7_SYvKGQA@mail.gmail.com>
> http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml#Protocol
>
> "Do not use type attributes for style sheets (unless not using CSS) and
> scripts (unless not using JavaScript)."
>
> Whereas the W3C validator is giving a warning (see image).

What DOCTYPE does your test document use?

The guideline has to be seen in the context of HTML 5:
<http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssguide.xml?showone=Document_type#Document_type>.

See e.g. how HTML 5 handles @type on <link> [1], <style> [2], and
<script> [3] elements.


[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#attr-link-type
[2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#attr-style-type
[3] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/scripting-1.html#attr-script-type

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