[whatwg] META elements

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Nov 12 07:09:39 PST 2004


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> It might be a good thing to describe META elements in a bit more detail 
> and match them with current implementations. HTML 4.01 currently states 
> that the 'http-equiv' attribute is supposed to be used by servers[1], 
> while current practice is that browsers do something with this in 
> *text/html documents*.
> 
> If WHATWG can define this somehow it might be easier for new UAs to know 
> what to implement instead of trying to figure out how other UAs are 
> doing it.

Ok, how is this:

   http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#http-equiv

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