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 GMT
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