Wednesday 14 August 2013

Create Custom Meta Tags

Use custom meta tags to store data that you need in javascript, instead of hard-coding that data into your javascript. I store my Google Analytics code in meta tags. Here's some examples:

<meta name="google-analytics" content="1-AHFKALJ"/>
<meta name="disqus" content="abcdefg"/>
<meta name="uservoice" content="asdfasdf"/>
<meta name="mixpanel" content="asdfasdf"/>

Company/Service Meta Tags

<meta name="microid" content="mailto+http:sha1:e6058ed7fca4a1921cq91d7f1f3b8736cd3cc1g7" />

APPLE META TAGS

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta content="yes" name="apple-touch-fullscreen" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
<meta name="viewport" content="width = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">

INTERNET EXPLORER META TAGS
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="RevealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=2)" />
<meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="RevealTrans(Duration=3.0,Transition=12)" />
<meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing" content="true">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="http://blog.reybango.com/about/"/>
<meta name="msapplication-window" content="width=800;height=600"/>
<meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="red"/>
<meta name="application-name" content="Rey Bango Front-end Developer"/>
<meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Launch Rey Bango's Blog"/>
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=About;action-uri=/about/;icon-uri=/images/about.ico" />
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=The Big List;action-uri=/the-big-list-of-javascript-css-and-html-development-tools-libraries-projects-and-books/;icon-uri=/images/list_links.ico" />
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=jQuery Posts;action-uri=/category/jquery/;icon-uri=/images/jquery.ico" />
<meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Start Developing;action-uri=/category/javascript/;icon-uri=/images/script.ico" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" />