At 09:37 AM 26/2/97 +0000, Lou Burnard wrote:
>Is a consensus now forming around the position that shoe-horning any more
>functionality into the limits of what is possible within a single attribute
>string in HTML is maybe not such a smart move?
I hope not.
>Of all the dot dot paren escape
>character sequences so far proposed has any one commanded much support from
>anyone except its proposer?
to me <META NAME = "EDNA.COVERAGE.JURISDICTION" CONTENT = "NSW, Schools">
isnt too bad.
>And does any such solution exist in a form where
>Joe Home-Page is going to be able to type it in and get it right the first
time
>without having to find the manual?
Well maybe a one page coding sheet if he/she really want to do it by hand.
>Because if the answer to more than one of these is "no", I think it's time to
>review the original decision to put more than simple unstructured strings
into
>the meta tags of HTML.
I dont disagree that that a better container is needed, but, for reason
described in more detail in a separate message called "My DC4 wish list",
our urgent need is for a simple HTML <META> standard which incorporates
qualifiers but is still easy to use.
Having said this, I would also like to agree with:
At 12:51 PM 27/2/97 +0000, Misha Wolf wrote:
>Speaking for Reuters, a *major* information provider/organiser/holder,
>what we are looking for is this very thing -- a PRECISE, UNAMBIGUOUS,
>and DETAILED specification which, when implemented, will allow our
>customers to quickly and easily search our great mass of data, to find
>the item(s) they are after.
>
if this is not too contradictory.
I look forward to meeting at least some of you in Canberra next week.
Jack
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