RE: Suggestion: Tags for personal information

Hello,

I think using <meta/> elements it is already possible to achieve, what you
desire.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-html-request@w3.org [mailto:www-html-request@w3.org]On Behalf
> Of Patrick Craig
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:55 AM
> To: www-html@w3.org
> Subject: Suggestion: Tags for personal information
>
>
> Hello
>
> It seems that these days everyone and their dog have a home page on the
> web.  If someone has a common name it is almost impossible to find their
> home page with a web search. There are several web sites for finding
> long lost school/college friends, but these require people to register
> and just return an email address. I think a lot of people are interested
> in finding out what happened to old friends but they don't necessarily
> want to contact them directly by email.
>
> I propose a set of personal information tags people can include on their
> home page. This would include things like name (including nicknames /
> maiden names), place and date of birth, school, college and employment
> information (including dates). Search engines could then provide a home
> page finder option which searched based on these tags.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Patrick
>

Received on Tuesday, 13 November 2001 07:04:02 UTC