extra stuff in the headers
Hi,
People were bothering me about favicon.ico again today, so let's do some
analysis. To get favicon.ico displayed, we need to add more stuff to the
headers. Current headers include:
<html lang="en">
...
<link rev="made" href="mailto:webmaster@debian.org";>
<meta name="Description" content="Debian GNU/Linux is a free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.">
<meta name="Keywords" content="debian, GNU, linux, unix, open source, free, DFSG">
<meta name="Language" content="English">
<meta name="Author" content="Debian Webmaster, webmaster@debian.org">
<meta name="Generator" content="WML 2.0.8 (30-Oct-2001)">
<meta name="Modified" content="2002-12-10 00:54:15">
...
Last Modified: Thu, Jan 30 12:56:14 UTC 2003
...
If we have lang=en, why do we need Language meta tag? If we have rev=made
link tag, why do we need the Author meta tag? If we have the modification
stuff in the footer, why do we need the Modified meta tag? If we know the
wml version on www-master, and the date on the file, why do we need the
Generator meta tag? If we have Google, why do we need the Keywords and
Description meta tags which ignores them? :)
Or, OTOH, should we ignore the extra overhead and just keep on stuffing
more tags in there as people want them?
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