Posted by richard on 10/02/06 06:54

"G Doucet" <someone@somewhere.nb.ca> wrote in message
news:XYZTg.1448$%6.35304@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>I wanted to keep track of my html files with a version number and identify
>myself as being the author. I could place this information in a comment at
>the top of the html document, like:
> <!-- Author = G Doucet -->
> <!-- Version = 2 -->
> While I'm at it, is a comment supposed to be like <!-- comment --> or <!--
> comment //--> ???
>
> Now I'm not very familiar with the meta tag but I have noticed that you
> could do something like this too:
> <META name="Author" content="G Doucet">
> What exactly does this achieve, and who sees this META information? Is
> there one for a version number?
>
> All info appreciated,
> Thanks,
> Guy
>

I'd use the meta tag. Means nothing to search engines AFAIK.
And you can use as many as needed.

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