HACKER Q&A
📣 renegat0x0

Is HTML meta field a hell incarnated?


Why oh why we have so many meta data? Yeah I know, everybody can think of their own meta data, and start their own standards. Let's have a new standard to handle all these other standards.

Some articles have something like:

Spotify has:

YouTube has:

There seems to be at least "some" attempts to clear this, but it's outdated:

https://github.com/kevinSuttle/html-meta-tags

Why no organization manages it, or maybe there is, but I have not heard about it?

Is meta is a nice bag for all 'custom' stuff? We can put there whatever we want?


  👤 DamonHD Accepted Answer ✓
Follow an organised system such as schema.org if you want your metadata to be widely understood. And it need not all be in meta tags in that case.

Try this tool against pages such as YouTube or www.earth.org.uk:

https://validator.schema.org/


👤 Devasta
There were attempts in the past to formalize stuff like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core

To be honest, in the modern age it's not reasonable to have any expectation of quality when it comes to HTML.