Here is the question as SoftQuad asked it, and Dave Raggett's reply,
about the significance of order in the HTML HEAD...
Lee
> >>Can Wilbur contain a statement to the effect that user agents must
> >> not reorder META elements except by explicit request, and that if
> >> they insert META elements themselves, must put them all after all
> >> other META elements.
Reply:
> >HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866) states:
> >
> > The head of an HTML document is an unordered collection of
> > information about the document.
> >
> >It follows that the order of META and LINK elements is unimportant.
> >This also follows from the equivalence with HTTP, for which the
> >ordering is defined as unimportant. It would be very hard at this
> >stage to change HTML in this regard.
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