Is it still necessary (or even good practice) when using HTML5 to declare the script type when using a script block?
e.g. <script type="text/javascript">
Plus what about using a CDATA block in the script for browser parsing?
e.g. // <![CDATA[ ... ~code here ~... // ]]>
Any help much appreciated.
The current draft of HTML5 doesn't require the type attribute for script tags.
Also the <
Is it still necessary (or even good practice) when using HTML5 to declare the script type when using a script block?
HTML 5 defines text/javascript as the default, and you'd be hard pressed to find a browser that didn't treat it as such. So you can omit it.
Plus what about using a CDATA block in the script for browser parsing?
Pointless unless you are writing XHTML 5 and using characters such as < or & in the script (but you should almost always be using external scripts anyway).
The CDATA comments are for XML, so only applicable if you're serving your pages up as xml (which you shouldn't be if it's HTML5).
As for the type attribute, it's optional now in HTML5.
