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Re: [Lynx-dev] rev=made and identifying page author
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David Woolley |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] rev=made and identifying page author |
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Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:05:57 +0100 |
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Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
I'm interested to know if anyone is aware of the history behind the rev=made
feature in lynx? The current implementation violates HTML in a couple of
ways:
I think it was in an early HTML standard, but dropped because of a total
failure to implement it in the then mainstream browsers. Instead they
introduced meta, which has no web semantics. My own theory is that meta
was basically introduced to allow Word to dump its meta data into web
page exports, without any real thought about what the word "web" really
means.
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