In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >> > >> Why not use something like UTF8 instead? > > > > Some reasons for not using UTF-8 on www.mozilla.org: > wouldn't &#xXXXXX work better? In terms of browser support in the absence of proper character encoding declaration, yes. In terms of authoring convenience, no. > >>>| Add meta description and keywords to help indexing. > how about "recommand" instead of "require"? Some pages need meta data, > others don't, and it's up to the author to write the approprate summary > & keywords if s/he has time If the documents aren't guaranteed to have proper metadata, metadata-based search is significantly less useful than full text Google search. If I knew some documents were totally off the radar if I used mozilla.org's hypothetical own search, I would of course prefer to use Google right away. So either all document authors have to be forced to include the metadata and doing it well (unlikely to happen) or all authors can be relieved of the metadata entry task. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/hsivonen/ Mozilla Web Author FAQ: http://mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html
