diff --git a/lib/coffee-script/browser.js b/lib/coffee-script/browser.js
index 9623cedd..3b51fee2 100644
--- a/lib/coffee-script/browser.js
+++ b/lib/coffee-script/browser.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // Generated by CoffeeScript 1.5.0
 (function() {
-  var CoffeeScript, runScripts;
+  var CoffeeScript, runScripts,
+    __indexOf = [].indexOf || function(item) { for (var i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; i++) { if (i in this && this[i] === item) return i; } return -1; };
 
   CoffeeScript = require('./coffee-script');
 
@@ -29,8 +30,11 @@
     return;
   }
 
-  CoffeeScript.load = function(url, callback) {
+  CoffeeScript.load = function(url, callback, options) {
     var xhr;
+    if (options == null) {
+      options = {};
+    }
     xhr = window.ActiveXObject ? new window.ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP') : new XMLHttpRequest();
     xhr.open('GET', url, true);
     if ('overrideMimeType' in xhr) {
@@ -40,7 +44,7 @@
       var _ref;
       if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
         if ((_ref = xhr.status) === 0 || _ref === 200) {
-          CoffeeScript.run(xhr.responseText);
+          CoffeeScript.run(xhr.responseText, options);
         } else {
           throw new Error("Could not load " + url);
         }
@@ -53,14 +57,15 @@
   };
 
   runScripts = function() {
-    var coffees, execute, index, length, s, scripts;
+    var coffees, coffeetypes, execute, index, length, s, scripts;
     scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
+    coffeetypes = ['text/coffeescript', 'text/literate-coffeescript'];
     coffees = (function() {
-      var _i, _len, _results;
+      var _i, _len, _ref, _results;
       _results = [];
       for (_i = 0, _len = scripts.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
         s = scripts[_i];
-        if (s.type === 'text/coffeescript') {
+        if (_ref = s.type, __indexOf.call(coffeetypes, _ref) >= 0) {
           _results.push(s);
         }
       }
@@ -69,13 +74,17 @@
     index = 0;
     length = coffees.length;
     (execute = function() {
-      var script;
+      var mediatype, options, script;
       script = coffees[index++];
-      if ((script != null ? script.type : void 0) === 'text/coffeescript') {
+      mediatype = script != null ? script.type : void 0;
+      if (__indexOf.call(coffeetypes, mediatype) >= 0) {
+        options = {
+          literate: mediatype === 'text/literate-coffeescript'
+        };
         if (script.src) {
-          return CoffeeScript.load(script.src, execute);
+          return CoffeeScript.load(script.src, execute, options);
         } else {
-          CoffeeScript.run(script.innerHTML);
+          CoffeeScript.run(script.innerHTML, options);
           return execute();
         }
       }
diff --git a/src/browser.coffee b/src/browser.coffee
index 471d6e3e..da208d47 100644
--- a/src/browser.coffee
+++ b/src/browser.coffee
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ CoffeeScript.run = (code, options = {}) ->
 return unless window?
 
 # Load a remote script from the current domain via XHR.
-CoffeeScript.load = (url, callback) ->
+CoffeeScript.load = (url, callback, options = {}) ->
   xhr = if window.ActiveXObject
     new window.ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP')
   else
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ CoffeeScript.load = (url, callback) ->
   xhr.onreadystatechange = ->
     if xhr.readyState is 4
       if xhr.status in [0, 200]
-        CoffeeScript.run xhr.responseText
+        CoffeeScript.run xhr.responseText, options
       else
         throw new Error "Could not load #{url}"
       callback() if callback
@@ -38,16 +38,19 @@ CoffeeScript.load = (url, callback) ->
 # This happens on page load.
 runScripts = ->
   scripts = document.getElementsByTagName 'script'
-  coffees = (s for s in scripts when s.type is 'text/coffeescript')
+  coffeetypes = ['text/coffeescript', 'text/literate-coffeescript']
+  coffees = (s for s in scripts when s.type in coffeetypes)
   index = 0
   length = coffees.length
   do execute = ->
     script = coffees[index++]
-    if script?.type is 'text/coffeescript'
+    mediatype = script?.type
+    if mediatype in coffeetypes
+      options = {literate: mediatype is 'text/literate-coffeescript'}
       if script.src
-        CoffeeScript.load script.src, execute
+        CoffeeScript.load script.src, execute, options
       else
-        CoffeeScript.run script.innerHTML
+        CoffeeScript.run script.innerHTML, options
         execute()
   null