Metadata in HTML 1.x (1993)
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): A Representation of Textual Information and MetaInformation for Retrieval and Interchange
June 1993
Requirement: metadata for title, author, date, etc.
Reality: etc. is a never-ending story
Compromise:
<META name="who-knows" content="whatever">
No change in HTML 2, 3
HTML 4 added the
profile
attribute, allowing metadata namespaces
David Wood
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