Re: meta tags: "obsoleted-by" and "obsoletes"

You might be interested in:
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5829

Cheers,


> On 19 Feb 2015, at 9:14 am, Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> wrote:
> 
> I would like to see standard HTML tags along these lines:
> 
> Scenario
> 
> Someone published a how-to page for some aspect of fedora20.
> Fedora21 is released.
> They publish a new version of their how-to page, updated for fedora21.
> 
> with the new feature
> 
> They add an “obsoleted-by” meta tag to their fedora20 page linking to their new page.
> They add an “obsoletes” meta tag to their fedora21 page linking to their old page.
> 
> 
> Discussion
> 
> Search engines could use this data, when available, to give far more helpful results.
> 
> Of course, fact of life, most pages that could benefit from these tags will never be updated to use them, but compliance will improve over time. We always have to start somewhere.
> 
> Someone could host a crowd-sourced database of obsoleted-by/obsoletes page relationships. Browsers and search engines could interoperate with it.
> 

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Received on Friday, 27 February 2015 04:02:20 UTC