Can meta names be created?

[Dung Ping]

There are names for 'description', 'author', 'copyright', 'robot', and
so forth. I like to create a name of 'appreciation', and write names of
the people who helped with my page.

Or I may create a name of 'to_whom', and write 'to my wife' in the
content.

Can meta names be created at one's will? Thanks.

Dung Ping

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kim_Andr=E9_Aker=F8?=]

There are names for 'description', 'author', 'copyright', 'robot', and
so forth. I like to create a name of 'appreciation', and write names
of the people who helped with my page.

Or I may create a name of 'to_whom', and write 'to my wife' in the
content.

Can meta names be created at one's will? Thanks.

No problem at all. However, it will only be readable by humans who
happen to be reading your HTML source code. AFAIK, not all meta names
are read by robots.

Example (here presented in XHTML):
<meta name="dedication" contents="To my wife" />

 

[Dung Ping]

No problem at all. However, it will only be readable by humans who
happen to be reading your HTML source code. AFAIK, not all meta names
are read by robots.

Example (here presented in XHTML):
<meta name="dedication" contents="To my wife" />

Thanks. Does the name have to be only one word? Or more, such as
'dedicated to', is also good?

If a name is not read by robots, it is just not in index or follow
somewhere, isn't it? My only purpose is that people will see it when
opening the source code.

Thanks again.
Dung Ping

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kim_Andr=E9_Aker=F8?=]

Thanks. Does the name have to be only one word? Or more, such as
'dedicated to', is also good?

Since the HTML specification doesn't have any requirements for the
contents of the "name" or "content" attributes, although "content" is
the only required attribute within the META element.

And I notice now that I misspelled my example text. It should be
"content", not "contents".

Another example (also presented in XHTML):

If a name is not read by robots, it is just not in index or follow
somewhere, isn't it? My only purpose is that people will see it when
opening the source code.

All of the source code will be indexed unless you have specified this
using the Robots Exclusion standard (behaving robots will honor this).
The robots won't do anything in regards to the META tags it doesn't
support, these will just be stored along with the rest of the source
code.

 

[Andy Dingley]

There are names for 'description', 'author', 'copyright', 'robot', and
so forth. I like to create a name of 'appreciation', and write names of
the people who helped with my page.

You might like to look into FOAF (Friend of a Friend), which allows
some of this to be represented. Although almost nothing makes any use
of it yet.

 

[Quasimido CSS]

My only purpose is that people will see it when
opening the source code.

you could use comment markers? <!--- buy buy buy! -->
but i guess some html cleaners, if you use, would strip that. also browsers would
presumably treat comment and unique meta differently (probably ignore both comment and
unique meta?)