Posted by Jim Higson on 02/26/06 21:17

Alan J. Flavell wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Jim Higson wrote:
>
>> Zooming out a bit, is there a good reason to use *any* meta elements in
>> documents for the public internet?
>
> "Dublin Core" specifies a profile of META usage which some groups
> of users find appropriate.
>
> Google suggests http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/

Ah, yes, IIRC OpenDocument uses DublinCore (which is about the only contact
I've had with it). I suppose that could be handy, expecialy if Browsers
ever start showing it.

>> It seems no search engines use them, and nobody ever really sees
>> them on the page. I never bother; should I?
>
> I guess that if you needed to use them, you would already know about
> it ;-)
>
> cheers

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