[whatwg] date meta-tag invalid

Mat Carey mat at matcarey.co.uk
Mon Jul 18 06:06:02 PDT 2011


I'm not aware of the context, but is your problem the lack of spaces?

You said:

> <metaname="date"content="#" />

Did you mean:

<meta name="date" content="#" />

Mat Carey

On 18 Jul 2011, at 13:54, <aykut.sensoy at bild.de> wrote:

> According to the w3c Validator the  <metaname="date"content="#" /> tag is invalid. In the WHATWG MetaExtensions List there is no registered extension, no specification and no proposal for the date meta-tag.
> The only alternative for "date" is a proposal called "created", which however doesn't meet the requirements for registration . For our SEO team the date meta-tag contains some of the most important information about a webpage.
> What would be a w3c-valid way to implement a creation date meta-tag in html5?
> 
> 
> Kind Regards
> Aykut Sensoy




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