Andreas Prilop <prilop4321@trashmail.net> writes:

> Is there any *practical* use of writing, say,
>
> <a href="book.pdf" type="application/pdf">
>
> with a TYPE attribute?

If you do, you can use CSS to mark up pdf links differently from other
links.

a[type=application/pdf] {
before: url("pdf-image.png");
--

For instance.

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