Tony and meta2ers
I hope this message is slightly tongue in cheek and we are not supporting
technology change via press release, rather than some understanding of
where the user base is at software wise. But seriously, I will not be
recommending to EdNA users that they use the HTML 4.0 Syntax until there is
some evidence that the majority of tools support this. In the meantime I
still favour the inelegant bracket notation for scheme and language because
I am reasonably confident that people's metadata will not get 'lost' when
they edit their pages with any HTML tool.
Of course our server should recognise all likely formats when parsing
pages. At the moment I understand the EdNA software is doing this with
purpose written software. What do other members of the list understand
about where off the shelf indexing software is at with recognising, storing
and searching on DC metadata?
Thanks
Jack Gilding
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At 04:58 PM 8/1/98 +0000, Tony Gill wrote:
>I just noticed that the W3C have recommended HTML 4.0 as of 18 December:
>
> http://w3c.org/Press/HTML4-REC
>
>So we can now all* start throwing LANG and SCHEME attributes into our
><META> tags with reckless abandon!
>
>...
>
>Happy New Year btw,
>
>Cheers,
>
>T.
>* except the minimalists of course ;-)
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> Surrey Institute of Art & Design * Farnham * Surrey * GU9 7DS * UK
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