7577 2009-09-11 11:57:15 +0000 meta/@name=descriptions vs invisible metadata 2010-10-04 14:28:03 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All VERIFIED NEEDSINFO NoReply P2 normal --- 1 julian.reschke ian annevk mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 27068 0 julian.reschke 2009-09-11 11:57:15 +0000 HTML5 defines meta/@name=description, and this is a good thing, as it is used in the wild, and actually used by search engines. However, it is a case of invisible metadata, and furthermore forces authors to repeat text that already appears somewhere else on the page. A link relation or a new container element <description> could address this. See <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0990.html> for a proposal of a link relation. 27071 1 annevk 2009-09-11 14:17:22 +0000 A link relation can easily be developed outside HTML5. 27072 2 julian.reschke 2009-09-11 14:26:49 +0000 That argument applies to lots of stuff which is in HTML5 currently as well. 27073 3 annevk 2009-09-11 14:29:15 +0000 That does not seem like a good reason to do more of it. 33426 4 mjs 2010-03-14 14:50:58 +0000 This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy. If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, 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 This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.