Re: extra stuff in the headers
Josip Rodin:
> To get favicon.ico displayed, we need to add more stuff to the headers.
To force favicon.ico we need a
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="wherever">
some browsers (such as Opera 7) only fetches the icon if explicitly
linked. Some will probably go for favicon.ico no matter what you write
there, though. Explicitly linking to /favicon.ico and making sure it
exists would probably work fairly well.
> If we have lang=en, why do we need Language meta tag?
The "Language" meta tag lists the natural name (in English) of the
language, whereas the lang attribute lists the ISO code. But the meta
Language stuff is non-standard, so it could easily be removed.
> If we have rev=made link tag, why do we need the Author meta tag?
Because it lists a readable name instead of just an e-mail link? But I
would rather go for a Dublin core meta element if we decide to keep it.
> If we have the modification stuff in the footer, why do we need the
> Modified meta tag?
The footer isn't really human-readable, and the HTTP header data is the
HTML generation time.
> If we know the wml version on www-master, and the date on the file,
> why do we need the Generator meta tag?
It's common to denote computer-generated pages with a generator meta
tag, so I say that's one to keep.
> If we have Google, why do we need the Keywords and Description meta
> tags which ignores them? :)
Especially since they suck anyway. The only places where we really use
the keywords are in Debian Weekly News, in all the other they just use
the standard string, which sucks. I say remove it unless the page
overrides it (as in DWN).
> Or, OTOH, should we ignore the extra overhead and just keep on stuffing
> more tags in there as people want them?
There is some cruft that no-one will cry over if it goes away.
But I'd also like to see more <link> tags. I wonder whether it would be
possible to add sensical autogenerated next/prev tags to the news,
security and DWN pages? Also proper rel=contents pages would be nice,
and probably a rel=help pointing to intro/cn. Especially now that
<link> support actually are getting supported by browsers other than
Lynx and Mosaic...
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