Extension - Webmaster tool

[nseika]

Title
Extension - Webmaster tool

Short, concise description of the idea
Suggestion to add more webmaster tool in the Extension

Full description of the ideahttp://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=extensionsRead more... )

Comments

[gerg]

You can add whatever meta tags you want with a custom style; the existing support for the "most popular" ones is fine IMO and we don't need to go down some path of adding support for every single 'webmaster tool' ever invented.

[azurelunatic]

Instead of specific other tools, what about a form where one could add some arbitrary number (or even unlimited, though there would always be some spammer or way-outside-the-norm user who abused unlimited in possibly frightening ways) of meta tags, and the form would put them in the style nicely? I know the WebSite Tonight site builder (and may I be cleansed from having mentioned its horrible name) does this (one of the few ways in which it is not more of a pain in the ass than the RTE).

If this happened, Support would have to learn what a meta tag looks like in the wild, and how exactly one fits into the form, how to explain "You did your meta tags wrong" to someone who did their meta tags wrong, and how much help would be given in getting the meta tags right.

That would probably also lead to some fun collisions when someone did make a custom style and didn't put their meta tags in the right spot, after having put the meta tags in through the interface.

[nseika]

Thanks, didn’t thought about that conflict with the designer’s template.
But for meta tag (not the HTTP Equiv), shouldn’t it be almost harmless? Just a name-value pair.
Well, some programming language used it to save states, but not in LJ right ?

[azurelunatic]

I do not see trouble coming from someone putting the wrong thing in the slot for the meta tag and breaking their style, attacking LiveJournal, or attacking their readers. I see it coming from "But I put the tag in just like it said, and $SERVICE says I didn't put it in!" and then when someone checks, it is not put in correctly, it is put in very very wrong. Or someone puts in the right thing in one place, and then changes it somewhere else with something custom, and some service they use stops working, and they want to know why.