Re: 'Age' for webpages

Merin Tresa Willy <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:11:56 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
What about dynamic HTML pages? Is there any mechanism for retrieving the age
of their contents?


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<[email protected]<Simetrical%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Merin Tresa Willy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Is a third dimension - 'age' necessary for webpages? Will its inclusion
> help
> > search engines and the like, to retrieve pages containing up-to-date
> data?
>
> The HTTP Last-Modified header can be used for this.  So can <time pubdate>:
>
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#attr-time-pubdate
>