Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/22/86 11:38

=?ISO-8859-15?Q?L=FCpher_Cypher?= <lupher.cypher@verizon.net> wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone knows of a good page that describes meta tags,

A good page describing all the useful meta tags would be almost empty.

> Basically, I
> want something that describes meta tags in full. I've found a list of
> http-equiv/name values at http://www.html-reference.com/META.htm though
> I am not sure if those are all.

No, those aren't all. It lacks <meta name="dwim" content="and do it now">,
for example.

The crucial question is which meta tags are _used_ by some software - not
which meta tags are emitted by some authoring software or invented by some
wannabe reference writer. We roughly end up with
- http-equiv="Content-Type", used by browsers _if_ there is no
corresponding real HTTP header
- name="robots", used by well-behaving robots (spiders)
- name="keywords" and/or name="description", used by _a few_ search
engines, typically with weight equal to normal text.

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