783816 - Clean-up unnecessary <meta> entries

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

The <meta> defined in kuma/templates/base.html are not all useful and should be removed:
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">
It was used by one _beta_ of IE6. It won't come back.

<meta name="ROBOTS" content="ALL">
Neither the original RFC, nor the official extensions supported by Google, Yahoo and Bing have an ALL value. We want "index, follow", which is the default. So no need for this line.

<meta name="Copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Mozilla.">
We have the official copyright in the footer of the page. And we have a <link rel=""> pointing to it. It is useless (and wrong, not all is (c) Mozilla).

<meta name="Rating" content="General">
This is not used by anybody, nor specified anywhere. Useless.

We need to keep the <meta charset> and the <meta name="og:...">.

Comment 1

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/a07850f7eddc73397c3d67ba701f851253a97f2b
fix bug 783816 - Removing useless meta tags

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/ca0162ad4c7f94bea1826f8dc509d313d6419aa2
Merge pull request #522 from darkwing/meta-tags-783816

fix bug 783816 - Removing useless meta tags

Comment 2

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

verified fixed developer.allizom.org