> > That makes sense, I suppose I can do something clever in > the template to > > add ellipses to the metadescription > > You could, by why would you want to? The "..." implies "and > so on", so > it's appropriate to use it when there's more to come before > or after the > "...". But if the description starts from the beginning, it would be > misleading/confusing to force the addition of ellipses there. > > Forgive me for saying this, but I think this sort of ornamental > punctuation would be right along the lines of the "quote marks for > decoration" that Dave Barry lampooned in an article several years ago.
Ah, but it's because I'm using PHP to generate the pages and the meta description is the first 60 characters of the full text content on the page I'm creating. hence the need to indicate that the description shown is truncated and continues rather than ending abruptly. I can add ... into the end of the meta tag and see how that works. Thanks Tony ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
