- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:57:21 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Okay, me and my colleague Tony create a page: > <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Jon" /> > <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Tony" /> > > Both of the statements made by those elements are correct. Whether it would However, neither are particularly useful to anyone outside the authoring organisation as the scope of the namespace within which they are defined is unknown to the world at large. <link rel="made" href="mailto:... at least tended towards a global namespace. > <meta /> is unfortunately a very loose syntax (<link /> is better, but still > lacking in comparison to some equivalents). I'm inclined to think that My own theory is that <meta name=... was invented to allow the metadata from Word documents to be dumped into HTML without having to worry about mapping it onto existing elements and link types. Of course, using non-link names with local scope does have commercial advantages as most organisations don't want a lot of feedback, and want that which arrives to come in through the PR department. It also removes a source of addresses for spammer CDs.
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