Home > Designing, Others > Metadata Markup

Metadata Markup

November 29th, 2015 Leave a comment Go to comments

Jeremy Keith looks at the competing standards for the metadata that goes in the head which ultimately helps services such as Slack, Twitter and Facebook to create a preview of the content of a website. Unfortunately the lack of consensus is an annoying problem for developers:

We’ve seen this kind of waste before. I remember when Netscape and Microsoft were battling it out in the browser wars: Internet Explorer added a proprietary acronym element, while Netscape added the abbr element. They both basically did the same thing. For years, Internet Explorer refused to implement the abbr element out of sheer spite.

Direct Link to Article — Permalink

Metadata Markup is a post from CSS-Tricks

Categories: Designing, Others Tags:
  1. No comments yet.
  1. No trackbacks yet.
You must be logged in to post a comment.