Posted by Kim Andr� Aker� on 01/11/46 11:28

Dung Ping wrote:

>
> Kim André Akerø wrote:
> > Dung Ping wrote:
> >
> > > There are names for 'description', 'author', 'copyright',
> > > 'robot', and so forth. I like to create a name of 'appreciation',
> > > and write names of the people who helped with my page.
> > >
> > > Or I may create a name of 'to_whom', and write 'to my wife' in the
> > > content.
> > >
> > > Can meta names be created at one's will? Thanks.
> >
> > No problem at all. However, it will only be readable by humans who
> > happen to be reading your HTML source code. AFAIK, not all meta
> > names are read by robots.
> >
> > Example (here presented in XHTML):
> > <meta name="dedication" contents="To my wife" />
>
> Thanks. Does the name have to be only one word? Or more, such as
> 'dedicated to', is also good?

Since the HTML specification doesn't have any requirements for the
contents of the "name" or "content" attributes, although "content" is
the only required attribute within the META element.

And I notice now that I misspelled my example text. It should be
"content", not "contents".

Another example (also presented in XHTML):
<meta name="dedicated to" content="my wife" />

> If a name is not read by robots, it is just not in index or follow
> somewhere, isn't it? My only purpose is that people will see it when
> opening the source code.

All of the source code will be indexed unless you have specified this
using the Robots Exclusion standard (behaving robots will honor this).
The robots won't do anything in regards to the META tags it doesn't
support, these will just be stored along with the rest of the source
code.

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Kim André Akerø
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