Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag

2010-07-27 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Roger H�gensen wrote: On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an article in my journal as the meta description, and write one up for other pages, usually replicating some of the content. I'm both looking for and want a solution to avoid

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-20 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-19 17:19, Roger Hågensen wrote: On 2010-03-19 15:43, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: I just feel that thehead andbody areas of a page have two distinct uses, and unnecessary crossovers

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-18 10:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: The main problem with that would be that parsers would then need to read into the body of the page to produce a description of your site. This might not produce much of an overhead on a one-off basis, but imagine a parser that is grabbing the

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: On 2010-03-18 10:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: The main problem with that would be that parsers would then need to read into the body of the page to produce a description of your site. This might not produce much of an overhead on a

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Search engines and people are not the only content parsers. Sure, you would expect a parser to maybe look further into the content if the description meta tag was missing, but imagine if a parser had to do this for all the content it looked at? There

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Search engines and people are not the only content parsers. Sure, you would expect a parser to maybe look further into the content if the description meta tag was missing, but imagine if

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-19 15:43, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Search engines and people are not the only content parsers. Sure, you would expect a parser to maybe look further into the content if the

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-18 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-18 03:37, Roger Hågensen wrote: I know, replying to myself is a big no-no... *cough* I searched the list, and looked at the HTML5 briefly and found nothing, nor can I ever recall such. So this is both a question and a proposal. On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 03:37 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: I searched the list, and looked at the HTML5 briefly and found nothing, nor can I ever recall such. So this is both a question and a proposal. On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an article in my

Re: [whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-18 Thread Julian Reschke
On 18.03.2010 03:37, Roger Hågensen wrote: I searched the list, and looked at the HTML5 briefly and found nothing, nor can I ever recall such. So this is both a question and a proposal. On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an article in my journal as the meta

[whatwg] summary tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-17 Thread Roger Hågensen
I searched the list, and looked at the HTML5 briefly and found nothing, nor can I ever recall such. So this is both a question and a proposal. On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of an article in my journal as the meta description, and write one up for other pages,