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It's a consequence of javascript being "good enough." Originally, the goal was for the web to support multiple languages (I think one prototype of the <script> tag had a "type=text/tcl") and IE supported VBScript for a while.

But at the end of the day, you only really need one, and the type attribute was phased out of the script tag entirely, and Javascript won.



https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

It is actively used today.


Fair enough. Its use to denote other scripting languages was phased out.


You can still use it that way you just would either have a browser extension or a JavaScript file read the contents and use it. Here is a 2017 Stack Overflow thread for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14015899/embed-typescrip...


BTW, over a third of court case management software in the US is run on VBScript hosted in IE7 compatibility mode.




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