Lou Burnard wrote:
> > <META NAME="DC.author" CONTENT="(SCHEME=email)[log in to unmask]">
>
> Call me cynical if you will, but is the current generation of web browser
> writers really smart enough to handle quoted strings properly, i.e. to ignore
> the equals sign and brackets inside quotes? what will happen when people forget
> the quotes?
>
> If said generation really IS that smart, I would have thought that using
> another attribute (SCHEME) was a lot less effort.
Hi, Lou... I have tended to agree that a separate SCHEME would be
less effort, and was one of those proposing such an approach for the
ADS which you saw when I was down in Oxford.
However, the HTML perfectionists have finally battered me down with
their arguments that we must comply with the HTML2 DTD. Hence the
attempt at compromise based around cramming everything into the
CONTENT area of the META tag.
> p.s. I agree with Lee's suggestion of preferring "mailto:" in this particular
> case. However, I'm not sure it will help with schemes for which no precedent
> exists in HTML. Anyone for "issn:01-234-16791" ?
easy-peasey... (sp?)
<META NAME="DC.identifier"
CONTENT="(SCHEME=issn) 01-234-16791">
Paul
Paul Miller
Graphics & GIS Advisor, University Computing Service
University of Newcastle, Claremont Tower, Claremont Road, Newcastle
upon Tyne NE1 7RU. tel (0191) 222 8212/8039, fax (0191) 222 8765
e-mail [log in to unmask] WWW http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~napm1/
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