- From: Chris Cressman <chris@chriscressman.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:57:21 -0400
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
> A drawback is that it uses hidden metadata, and, even worse, is likely to > duplicate information from the page. It seems what's needed is to markup the > page so that a consumer can actually locate the description inside the page. > > One way to do that would be a link relation, for instance: > > <link rel="description" href="#desc"/> The WHATWG Wiki has a RelExtensions page [1] where anyone can add additional rel values. However, I don't think your example is an appropriate use of the LINK element in HTML 5 [2]. The LINK element would need to be redefined (or clarified) to allow linking to a fragment within the current document. > <div id="desc"> > <h2>Abstract</h2> > <p> > ...description text... > </p> > </div> I agree that moving the meta description into the body of the page is a good idea. I also think the idea of using a reserved id name could work. However, I wouldn't expect HTML 5 to adopt this. Instead, I would pursue this within the microformats community. [1] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RelExtensions [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-link-element Chris -- Chris Cressman http://chriscressman.com
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