Re: webmaster-tag

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 08:26:15 -0400 (EDT), ruud.steltenpool@philips.com
wrote:
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> Idea:
> A standard way to put the webmaster's e-mail address somewhere in the
> code of a webpage (this of course then would be optional) You can
> always put it in comments, but someone should tell people to do that in
> a standard way to make it work

This idea was already part of HTML 3.2 [1] (but for some reason this
particular link relation wasn't in HTML 4.0 [2], but it is used):

<link rev="made" href="mailto:webmaster@foo.com" />

The href could also be an http URL.

David

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#link
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.12

Received on Thursday, 3 June 1999 08:49:43 UTC