What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such? Thanks.
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Fast Eddie wrote: What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
Some tools can recognise it. You can write your own tools that recognise it.
Humans can read it.
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"Fast Eddie" <ne*******@news server.com> wrote: What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
None. Well, it might be regarded as a small improvement over specifying
the author in a comment only.
Most <meta> tags are completely useless, but many of them are potentially
dangerous: they give wrong information, and if some software some day
starts actually using <meta> information, who knows what happens?
Then there are some exceptions, most notably <meta http-equiv=
"Content-Type" ...>, which can be useful _if_ it contains adequate
information.
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Fast Eddie wrote:
What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
Some search-engine robots used them in the past to get information about the
website. I don't think it's used today. IMO it belongs to a website as the
alt-attribute does. But that's my personal opinion.
Greetz Eric Biller
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 00:25:09 -0400,
"Fast Eddie" <ne*******@news server.com> posted: What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such? Thanks.
I should have thought that'd only be of much use to a team of people
working on a site and they wanted to simply track who's looking after each
page.
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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tu t.fi> wrote: "Fast Eddie" <ne*******@news server.com> wrote:
What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
None. Well, it might be regarded as a small improvement over specifying
the author in a comment only.
Most <meta> tags are completely useless, but many of them are potentially
dangerous: they give wrong information,
Much like the content of many web pages, now? ;-)
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Eric Biller wrote: Fast Eddie wrote:
What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
IMO it belongs to a website as the alt-attribute does.
I couldn't quite parse that sentence. Could you rephrase it?
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>> From: Fast Eddie
What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
From: Jukka K. Korpela
None. Well, it might be regarded as a small improvement over
specifying the author in a comment only.
Most <meta> tags are completely useless, but many of them are
potentially dangerous: they give wrong information, and if some
software some day starts actually using <meta> information, who
knows what happens?
Then there are some exceptions, most notably <meta http-equiv=
"Content-Type" ...>, which can be useful _if_ it contains adequate
information.
Righto. I use Content-Type to indicate MIME type and character set.
It doesn't look as if I'll lose anything by omitting the more, uh,
documentary meta tags. Thanks for the info.
Fast Eddie wrote: What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such? Thanks.
Depends on which tools you're using.
* A content-management system used by a group of people could use such
metadata to only allow documents to be edited by the original author.
* The management team within an organisation could mandate the use of it
to assist in tracking down the authors of documents in the future.
I'm sure you can think of other possible uses.
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>> From: Fast Eddie
What's the benefit to coding <meta name="author".. .> and such?
Thanks.
From: Toby Inkster
Depends on which tools you're using.
* A content-management system used by a group of people could use
such metadata to only allow documents to be edited by the original
author.
* The management team within an organisation could mandate the use
of it to assist in tracking down the authors of documents in the
future.
I'm sure you can think of other possible uses.
I can think of reasons that people might want to know the author of a
page. Comments would work equally well for that purpose, though, and
would allow for more flexibility in formatting.
The bottom line, so far as I can see, is that there's no reason for me
to use such meta tags in my personal site. I guess that was my
original question, although I worded it in a more general way.
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