- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:32:07 +0300
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Saturday, Aug 24, 2002, at 02:04 Europe/Helsinki, Toby Inkster wrote:
>> Is there any remaining practical use of <meta>?
>
> With the http-equiv attribute, yes! Not everyone has the permission to
> use .htaccess files and stuff, so the <meta> tag has its uses.
* Trying to override the Content-Type via <meta> is bogus. It comes
too late.
* Overriding the character encoding via <meta> is useless in XHTML
2.0, because the issue is
handled at the XML level.
* Trying to do cache control via <meta> is delusional, because proxies
don't see the <meta> tags.
* Refresh isn't a real HTTP header anyway.
--
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@niksula.hut.fi
http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/
Received on Sunday, 1 September 2002 12:32:43 UTC