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Bug 21212 - Not registered meta keyword is not an error
Summary: Not registered meta keyword is not an error
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2013-03-07 16:59 UTC by Aur
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Aur 2013-03-07 16:59:32 UTC 
It is a mistake to deal not registered meta keyword as an error. It would be acceptable as a warning.
Applications such as Foswiki make a good use, including namespace.
Example: <meta name="foswiki.PUBURL" content="http://wiki.abc/pub" />
Comment 1 Jukka K. Korpela 2013-04-04 08:09:49 UTC 
By HTML5 drafts, unregistered meta keyword is an error. So this bug should be closed as invalid. The issue whether it SHOULD be an error belongs to the discussion about the specs, not to a validator bug list.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2013-04-20 14:18:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> By HTML5 drafts, unregistered meta keyword is an error. So this bug should
> be closed as invalid. The issue whether it SHOULD be an error belongs to the
> discussion about the specs, not to a validator bug list.

Correct.