Re: meta tag or EARL in page

I have some thoughts on DC.Relation.conformsTo at [1].

Another idea is to do something like: <link rel="meta" href="myearl.earl" />

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-er-ig/2002Oct/0015.html

At 09:36 PM 10/24/02, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

>DC.Relation.conformsto would be the obvious choice from teh Dublin Core
>vocabulary that I know. But I don't think that inside the page is the best
>place to put this kind of information - apart from anything it restricts the
>ability of people to decribe information they cannot directly edit - which
>cuts out the possiblity for third parties to provide valuable information
>taht would help users (one of the neat features of PICS...)
>
>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
>On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Phill Jenkins wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Do any of the evaluation and repair tools place a meta data tag in the html
> >source of a web page after the page is evaluated and/or repaired?
> >
> >Bobby 4.0, PageScreamer 4.1, and Lift (to name a few) do not seem to have
> >that option.  Some have the option to add an icon to the page (Lift and
> >Bobby for example have "approved by" icons).
> >
> >Should the tools have the option to add meta tag?
> >
> >Does Dublin Core provide a standard or reserved "name" for E R T's?
> >
> >Would/should a meta tag ever point to an EARL file?
> >
> >For example,
> >
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> ><html lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> ><head>
> ><title>Some validated and repaired Web page</title>
> ><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
> ><meta name="copyright" content="copyright (c) 2002 by IBM corporation" />
> ><meta name="owner" content="pjenkins@us.ibm.com" />
> ><meta name="validated and repaired" content="Some tool name, date, and
> >perhaps EARL url here" />
> ><meta name="GENERATOR" content="IBM WebSphere Studio Homepage Builder
> >V6.0.2 for Windows">
> >
> >Regards,
> >Phill Jenkins
> >IBM Research Division - Accessibility Center
> >
> >
>
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