language="javascript"

which of the apocryphal 'older browsers' need this?

[Robin_reala]

Does anyone know which 'older browsers' require the language attribute in script elements? I want to purge them from our templates in the name of reclaiming bandwidth, but I'll need to know if I'm killing JS for any browsers on our support list. All I can find on other sites is that some 'older browsers' need it, but I suspect those pages are out of date anyway...

Thanks!

[orion_rus]

Yeap, my experience shown, thad modern browsers didn't need what property, i think you can easy remove it)
Good luck to you

[encyclo]

From memory, IE2 and Netscape 2.x had problems, but I think that it was more to do with the fact that they only supported Javascript 1.0, not 1.1 or 1.2. The

language

attribute was depreciated in HTML 4.0 in favor of

type

,so anything after about 1996 should be OK. So using

language

is little more than a waste of bandwidth these days.

[Robin_reala]

Just what I wanted to hear :) Thanks!

[Rambo Tribble]

Of course, for a browser to dispense with the language attribute it must support the type attribute on the script tag; IE began support of the type attribute in version 4, Netscape in version 6.

[Robin_reala]

OK, that's cool. We provide limited support for IE4 and no support for NN4 any more so that just fits our compatibility lists.