Debug message “Resource interpreted as other but transferred with MIME type application/javascript”

Question

OK, I understand what the messages means, but I\'m really not sure what\'s causing it. I\'m using Safari and the Web Inspector on Mac OS X, by the way.

I\'v

Answer 1

An image with an empty "src" attribute generates this error under Windows-Chrome:

... whereas ...

... does not.

I arrived here because my ajax resultset was returning "src" data which was empty yet the img was still being inserted into the page.