Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/09/07 22:10

Scripsit Dave Kelly:

> In the HTML header, there is a line like this:
> <meta name="author" content="Dave Kelly"/>

It's basically write-only code. Some authoring software spits out such
stuff, but virtually no software uses it. Technically, it can be seen by
users who view the source or use e.g. View/Page Info on Firefox, but that's
not particularly relevant to anything.

> Is it possible and allowed to have a line like this also"
> <meta name="photographer" content="Harry Crofton"/>

You can use <meta name="any foolish name you invent or copy"
content="whatever crap you wish to waste bandwidth" /> and everyone can and
will ignore that. Authors often waste their time because they saw some
clueless tutorial or example with lots of impressive-looking <meta> tags.

> The other way to ask this question, How do I give credit to another
> persons work in this web page?

What did he say when you asked him? After all, you needed a permission to
use his photographs, so you could just as well ask how he likes to be
credited, and you could suggest some alternatives.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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