[Bug 12918] I found that you limited the keywords acceptable for the meta-name attribute and for the link-rel attribute. In the specs you use exhaustive lists of allowed keywords. In my opinion you should only suggest keywords. See also http://webhel.blogspot.com/20

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12918

--- Comment #4 from Hans <h.n.vandergraaf@gmail.com> 2011-06-13 09:39:29 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)

> Why is that a problem? Is it a problem that the "HTML5 standard" "changes" if a
> new language subtag for a natural language is added to the IANA language subtag
> registry?

The problem is pricipal: The content of a website should not be part of a
standard. 

More practical. I have tried to create a modern website which is accessible and
usable. For that reason I have used some meta keywords. I was very surprised to
find out that the webpages did not validate due to the fact that I used
apparently old fashioned keywords. I tried to follow the HTML5 standard, for
example by studying the list at
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp and more specific (after
discovering that the website did not validate) the meta tag reference, found at
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_meta.asp and
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_meta_name.asp

At this last page there is a list of possible metatags, without a reference to
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

Also at this page there is stated that "You can define your own names in a
schema" for other keywords. However there is no reference to a page which
instructs you how to do this.

In practice I found that at the site of Cynthia says... they still recommend
the use of meta name="language". See for example:
http://www.contentquality.com/mynewtester/cynthia.exe?rptmode=2&url1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.helenahoeve.nl%2F
(second row of the Priority 3 Verification Checklist). Is it there for
backwards compatability? And should it be elimated in the HTML5 standard? I
still have my doubts. That's why I think meta keywords should not be part of
the standard.

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