Good question—I’d like to see what some other responses are. Even with
the advent of HTML5 I’m still firmly in the XHTML 1.0 Strict camp
currently and typically add to the <head> you illustrated:
• <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="" />
• <link rel="license" href="" />
…along with a few other meta tags for author(s), designer(s),
developer(s), description and keywords.
Kind regards.
—Pascal
On 23/07/2009, at 10:14 PM, Paul Collins wrote:
Hi all,
I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the
header of their document? What is best practice for:
- Good search engine rankings
- Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?)
- Do we need robots - all anymore?
- Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any)
- Does anyone bother with descriptions, keywords anymore?
- Dublin Core metadata, is that a forgotten fad?!
I'll show you an example of how I setup a standard page, please
anyone offer what they think is best practice, or perhaps send any
useful links:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd
">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml
" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"/>
<title>TITLE</title>
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL"/>
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"/>
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="STYLESHEET" type="text/css"
media="all"/>
</head>
Cheers
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