style type=" something else?

[the tree]

I vaugely remember it being mentioned that <style> is never good enough and <style type="text/css"> should always be used because there are other styling languages.

But where can these mysterious and presumably useless languages be found?

[drhowarddrfine]

The attribute 'type' is used in other elements besides the <style> tag. So type can be used, in its proper context, for text/html, image/gif, etc. I don't recall if there is anything from the xml camp that uses this differently.

[Charles]

Inside of Netscape 4. It had its own special type "text/javascript". Yes, it's a JavaScript syntax, or rather it is JavaScript but you're in a style scope.

[Kravvitz]

It allows more than one style language to be used with HTML. Which would be handy if browsers supported more than one.

Likewise with the <script> element. IE/Win supports JScript (implementation of ECMA Script which is the standard based on JavaScript and JScript) and VBScript.

[Charles]

I never understood why Microsoft didn't call their extensions to CSS MSS. Then we could style the scrollbars and still validate.

[GSZX1337]

I never bothered with the <stlye type> tag. I always used the <script embed> tag.

[the tree]

Kravvitz, yes I know, that was the premise of my question.

Charles, yay! Now I know.

GSZX1337, urm... they do entirely different things.

[GSZX1337]

Kravvitz, yes I know, that was the premise of my question.

Charles, yay! Now I know.

GSZX1337, urm... they do entirely different things.
Sry, I meant @import ""; (for CSS anyway) And I also embed flash documents in my web pages so no need for that tag for me.
Thanx for pointing that out.