Re: [whatwg] tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-19 15:43, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > Search engines and people are not the only content parsers. Sure, you > would expect a parser to maybe look further into the content if the > desc

Re: [whatwg] tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 15:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: > On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > Search engines and people are not the only content parsers. Sure, you > > would expect a parser to maybe look further into the content if the > > description meta tag was missing, but imagi

Re: [whatwg] tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-19 15:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Search engines and people are not the only content parsers. Sure, you would expect a parser to maybe look further into the content if the description meta tag was missing, but imagine if a parser had to do this for all the content it looked at? There

Re: [whatwg] tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 13:43 +0100, Roger Hågensen wrote: > On 2010-03-18 10:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > > The main problem with that would be that parsers would then need to > > read into the of the page to produce a description of your > > site. This might not produce much of an overhead on

[whatwg] EventSource remark

2010-03-19 Thread Anselm R Garbe
Hi there, I came across this one today: http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/ In section 8 the following is said "[..] Authors are also cautioned that HTTP chunking can have unexpected negative effects on the reliability of this protocol. Where possible, chunking should be disabled for serving e

Re: [whatwg] Processing image map area elements in the Circle state (section 4.8.13.2)

2010-03-19 Thread Tab Atkins Jr.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 19:39 +, Alex Bishop wrote: >> In the processing model for image maps (section 4.8.13.2), step 8 of the >> processing instructions for area elements says that if the shape >> attribute is in the Circle state: >>

Re: [whatwg]

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
I forgot to mention that in addition to href="#desc" /> it could also be possible to implement it for href="#keyw" /> etc. Full example: href extending the meta tags. Section header. This is the first paragraph in the document or an aside or some other content perhaps. More content

Re: [whatwg]

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-18 13:13, Julian Reschke wrote: On 18.03.2010 03:37, Roger Hågensen wrote: I searched the list, and looked at the HTML5 briefly and found nothing, nor can I ever recall such. So this is both a question and a proposal. On my own site currently I mostly replicate the first paragraph of

Re: [whatwg] tag to help avoid redundancy of meta description tag!?

2010-03-19 Thread Roger Hågensen
On 2010-03-18 10:04, Ashley Sheridan wrote: The main problem with that would be that parsers would then need to read into the of the page to produce a description of your site. This might not produce much of an overhead on a one-off basis, but imagine a parser that is grabbing the description