- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:08:45 +0100
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Michael[tm] Smith writes: > Speaking from my perspective as a contributor to development of a > conformance checker: In practice, we receive a lot of comments and bug > reports from confused/frustrated users who are trying to use values > for meta@name that are not registered. Hi Mike. Thanks for sharing your wisdom on this. Could you give some examples of the kinds of <meta> names people are using? And do you have an idea which user-agents are acting on those names? I'm interested in whether the <meta> tags people are using are meaningless cruft or have useful effects in niche fields. > And as far as the strategy of trying to use the spec and Wiki page as > a means to educate them about trying to taking the time to register > meta@name values and only use registered values and standard values > (those listed in the spec), well, that strategy is not working well. > They just want the validator to shut up. How about a validator interface along the lines of: I see you've used a <meta name=kapow> tag. kapow isn't a <meta> name that I know about. Are you sure that it's a correct name, and that it's doing something useful in your document? If so, please tell me its purpose here, then I'll know what it's for and I won't complain about it again: ______________________________ Then the validator could add a wiki entry for it. Cheers Smylers -- Stop drug companies hiding negative research results. Sign the AllTrials petition to get all clinical research results published. Read more: http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
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