16497 2012-03-23 17:37:40 +0000 HTML should provide a tag called <index> so that the authors of the web pages can enclose words and phrases that they think should be indexed. This would help search engines and others who would like to index web pages. Even the web authors could use a 2013-02-25 22:52:33 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor eoconnor eoconnor erika.doyle mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin theimp public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 65992 0 contributor 2012-03-23 17:37:40 +0000 Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: HTML should provide a tag called <index> so that the authors of the web pages can enclose words and phrases that they think should be indexed. This would help search engines and others who would like to index web pages. Even the web authors could use a program that could auto generate an index page from various web pages on a topic for web publication. Posted from: 24.63.58.162 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11 69639 1 theimp 2012-07-05 02:50:36 +0000 Unfortunately, as we have seen with the keywords meta attribute in the past, this is open to abuse, to such a degree, that it will be unimplemented. However, perhaps you could use <mark>, and if search engines develop algorithms to determine levels of "trust" for documents, they could then optionally consider your use of <mark> to have an effect similar to your proposal for <index>. 70306 2 contributor 2012-07-18 07:17:34 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17922 as part of operation convergence. 81714 3 robin 2013-01-21 15:59:19 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 81832 4 robin 2013-01-21 16:02:05 +0000 Mass move to "HTML WG" 83683 5 eoconnor 2013-02-25 22:52:33 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Additional Information Needed Change Description: No spec change. Rationale: It's unclear how such a feature would help search engines. That said, would you be interested in pursuing such a feature in an extension specification?