Re: meta tags: "obsoleted-by" and "obsoletes"
Mark Nottingham <[email protected]>
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You might be interested in: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5829 Cheers, > On 19 Feb 2015, at 9:14 am, Dave Yost <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to see standard HTML tags along these lines: > > Scenario > > Someone published a how-to page for some aspect of fedora20. > Fedora21 is released. > They publish a new version of their how-to page, updated for fedora21. > > with the new feature > > They add an “obsoleted-by” meta tag to their fedora20 page linking to their new page. > They add an “obsoletes” meta tag to their fedora21 page linking to their old page. > > > Discussion > > Search engines could use this data, when available, to give far more helpful results. > > Of course, fact of life, most pages that could benefit from these tags will never be updated to use them, but compliance will improve over time. We always have to start somewhere. > > Someone could host a crowd-sourced database of obsoleted-by/obsoletes page relationships. Browsers and search engines could interoperate with it. > -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/