Hey Lalo, 2009/2/5 Lalo Martins <[email protected]>: > quoth Koen Deforche as of Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:13:30 +0100: >> >> Actually, no, you are the first to ask. It is my understanding that meta >> tags are of no use anymore given their abuse in the past and search >> robots generally ignore them ? > > Meta keywords and description were abused and are now largely ignored by > robots. But there are many other uses for the meta tag. And even > keywords/description is starting to see use in what it was really > designed for -- page information -- as used by semantic web efforts.
I have been reading up on the meta tag. One question remains: do you want the meta tag to be interpreted by the browser (apparently the browser does not interpret any meta tags that are added to a page after it is rendered) or by a search engine ? Wt uses 3 distinct rendering scenarios: - a search engine is given a non-JavaScript page immediately. This is the simplest case, and meta tags would simply be embedded in the HTML, which would work as expected. - any other browser is first handed a small bootstrap HTML. An AJAX-capable web browser will load all the content using JavaScript. The WApplication object is only constructed after the bootstrap page was rendered and it is know that the browser supports AJAX. Meta tags could be added, but only using JavaScript, and in that case apparently browsers ignore the contents [1]. - a web browser with JavaScript/AJAX disabled will load all the content using HTML. Again, meta tags would simply be embedded in the HTML. So, the second (most common secnario), where you wish to set meta tags for the browser, would fail, unless we support them in the bootstrap HTML which would require that they are read from a configuration file. I guess I am still struggling with the use of meta tags in the context of an AJAX application (second scenario), and whether that would fit your objectives ? Regards, koen [1] http://bytes.com/groups/javascript/152396-add-meta-tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ witty-interest mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/witty-interest
