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@JimJMar 29.2007

Someone showed me some lovely code, a day or two ago.
It included a line http-equiv for charset=
but also – and that’s what caught my eye –
some http-equivs for type= “text/css” and type=”text/javascript”.
Those lines appealed to a lazy man like me.
Any volunteers?
JimJ

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@holyhttpMar 29.2007 — #<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

@WebJoelMar 29.2007 — #<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />

prepares browsers for what is to come I guess (??). It's in my template-generator.

Below: my most bullet-proof (but never-yet-perfect!) template:

[code=html]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
 <html><head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
 <title></title>
 <style type="text/css">
 *	{border:0; padding:0; margin:0;}/* Set everything to "zero" */
 
 body {min-height:100%; height:101%;
 font:x-small Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
 voice-family: ""}"";voice-family:inherit;
 font-size:small;/*for IE 5.5 */
 } html>body {font-size:small;}
 /*font-size: small; voice-family: ""}"";
 voice-family: inherit; font-size: medium;*/} /* Assist IE rendering height, keyword-font sizes, etc. */
 
 p {font-size: 90%; line-height:1.2em; margin-top:10px;}
 h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {font-family: 'times new roman', arial, verdana, serif; background-color:none;
 font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; margin:11px 0 0 10px;}
 h1{font-size: 1.93em; margin-top:12px;}
 h2{font-size: 1.72em; margin-top:12px;}
 h3{font-size: 1.52em; margin-top:12px;}
 h4{font-size: 1.42em; margin-top:12px;}
 h5{font-size: 1.32em; margin-top:12px;}
 h6{font-size: 1.21em; margin-top:12px;}
 </style>
 
 <script type="text/javascript"><!--
 // -->
 </script>
 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"><!-- path to your favicon -->
 </head>
 <body>
 
 
 
 </body>
 </html>[/code]

@JimJauthorMar 30.2007 — #Thanks, WebJoel,

That's exactly what I was looking for.

I must have spotted it on another of your replies.

Many thanks,

JimJ

@JimJauthorApr 03.2007 — #Maybe I should not have been so pleased.

I've discovered since that meta tags are not such a good thing.

Apparently they were provided, not for the benefit of developers,

but for search-engines. But then they abused so much that search-engines have stopped using them. We are now advised not to use them ! ! !

http://www.webmarketingnow.com/tips/meta-tags-uncovered.html#content-script

However, I'm still feeling lazy. So perhaps I'll continue to use them.

JimJ

@WebJoelApr 03.2007 — #If used correctly with humility and succinct message, -I see no problem. It's those sites that stuff a hundred or two repetative phrases into a META tag that they think will boost their ranking. A sentence or maybe two short sentences should suffice for description=""

but I have built sites that indexed just fine without using META beyond the basic that my template has.

Interesting article. -They do not seem to have any real recommendation except for 'do not use', huh? ?

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