Posted by Jim Higson on 02/26/06 19:59

Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> As yet, no-one has suggested a reason to prefer the use of <meta
> name="title"...> , nor am I aware of one myself. I don't suppose it
> does any harm, other than cluttering up the document with extra stuff.
> But omitting the actual <title> element is not an option, if you want
> to write valid HTML - and there are quite a few practical benefits for
> getting that right (search engines, summaries, browser title bars -
> window and/or tab - bookmark titles etc...)

Zooming out a bit, is there a good reason to use *any* meta elements in
documents for the public internet?

It seems no search engines use them, and nobody ever really sees them on the
page. I never bother; should I?

--
Jim

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