HTML5 [removed] declarations

Question

Is it still necessary (or even good practice) when using HTML5 to declare the script type when using a script block?

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Answer 1

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).