On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:30:47 +1200, farcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First time posting here > > I have been editing (not creating) some pages for the first time using > Mozilla composer (1.5b) > > My problem is that Composer rewrites the meta keyword and description tags. > I know why it is doing this so it is not a problem and I have now turned > off the code rewrite in preferences. > > What I would like to know is why does Mozilla rewrite these two tags > into a format that cannot be read by most search engines - when these > two tags are very important to search engines. > > for example - mozilla writes tags like this: > ><meta content=" . . . . . " name="Description"> ><meta content=" . . . . " name="Keywords"> > > while the tag code should look like this to be recognised: > ><meta name="Description" content=". . . . . "> ><meta name="Keywords" content=". . . . . ">
This is not correct. The tags *should* be recognized either way -- HTML parameters are position-independent. That is not to say that there are not search engine spiders out there that are broken; I don't know about that. In any case, this must be new behavior in 1.5b, because as late as 1.5a the position of the parameters was preserved -- I know this because I recently wrote a publishing application which uses META tags to allow the author communicate with the hosting application. -- Mike
