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Bug 14193 - Problem: isolating sections of a page and identifying them as being "about" the theme of the page. I know we have meta description, keywords...title... but we don't have a tag that can be used multiple times within a page to establish what that page is a
Summary: Problem: isolating sections of a page and identifying them as being "about" ...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-17 17:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-19 23:22 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-09-17 17:29:44 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Problem:  isolating sections of a page and identifying them as being "about"
the theme of the page.

I know we have meta description, keywords...title... but we don't have a tag
that can be used multiple times within a page to establish what that page is
about.	At least, I haven't been able to find a tag that would handle that. 
It seems that this is a useful tag to enable webmasters to guide search
indexers...  I know it could be abused but really think that the benefits
would far outweigh the negatives.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 23:22:25 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Search engines don't seem to have needed this so far; what basis do we have for assuming that they might need this in the future? Are we aware of any software that might need this?

Isn't this what the <body> element is for? The page is, by definition, about what it says in the <body>, right?