Html page Doctype and Meta

[Toby A Inkster]

Not to challenge you, more out of curiosity, how does Opera use
keywords?

Hmmm... it doesn't seem to. Perhaps it used to but doesn't any more. What
I *thought* it did was keep the keywords when you bookmarked a page (thus
allowing them to contribute towards bookmark searches).

My general point still stands though -- the fact that search engines do
not support a particular <meta> element does not make including that
metadata entirely useless.

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[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Toby A Inkster:

Hmmm... it doesn't seem to. Perhaps it used to but doesn't any more.
What I *thought* it did was keep the keywords when you bookmarked a
page (thus allowing them to contribute towards bookmark searches).

I think Opera uses <meta name="description" ...> in that context.

I suppose you can tweak Opera (and maybe other browsers as well) into
displaying the content of <meta> tags as visible part of document
content. This would be an interesting idea, if such tags generally
contained useful information and not nonsensical babble and worse.

 

[Ed Jay]

Jukka K. Korpela scribed:

Scripsit Toby A Inkster:


I think Opera uses <meta name="description" ...> in that context.

Yes.