On 2010-03-18 13:13, Julian Reschke wrote:
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 description,
and write one up for other pages, usually replicating some of the
content.
...
See related W3C bug:
<http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7577>.
Best regards, Julian
Thanks Julian, looking at that found me the link to:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0990.html
It suggests <link rel="description" href="#desc" />, which is ok I guess.
But why not simply allow this instead:
<meta name="description" href="#desc" />
Existing parsers would notice that content="" is missing which is stated
as being required,
parsers that have been updated would notice there is a href="" instead,
so search engines could just look for that id in the page.
I think this would have the highest success rate.
If backwards compatibility is such a major concern then this could be done:
<meta name="description" content="" href="#desc" />
I'm unsure what gives the best result for varous parsers though,
would empty content make them behave the same as if the meta tag was not
there at all?
Or would a empty tag cause them to use "" as the actual page description?
I'd prefer to have the content attribute missing instead myself, but...
Regards,
Roger.
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