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 are still overheads to
consider.
Why not just use server-side code to output the first paragraph of
content as the description for the page also?
I just feel that the <head> and <body> areas of a page have two
distinct uses, and unnecessary crossovers shouldn't occur if it's
avoidable.
True, but there is also such a thing as uneeded redundancy, sure
repeating the same info in the meta tags which is also in the document
may not add that many KB,
but with increasing number of page requesters that really pile up the
bandwidth total. Something both users and hosters and ISPs should have
an interest in right?
If you look at my other thread Re: [whatwg] <meta name="description"
href="#desc" />
It allows notifying the parser that the content is in the page, and it
is up to the parsers configuration whether to scan beyond the header in
that case. Best of both worlds IMO.
Roger.
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