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Re:Wireless Das Keyboard Modification by darklajid on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:30AM (#9563180)
Off-topic, but something that surprised me: This site comes up blank/empty here. I assume it's ublock - haven't tested that.

I did look at the source of the page and .. whoa. Can someone explain to me what

meta og:description (more or less the whole text, I guess)

meta itemprop="description" (as above, a full copy)

meta twitter:descrption (a third one..)

are? Is that normal? Sane? I've never seen that before.

Plus, meta description is .. present but empty. The body starts roughly 600 lines into the document.

Re:Wireless Das Keyboard Modification by bdchauvette on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:48AM (#9563223)
og:description is metadata for facebook's OpenGraph. [1]

twitter:description one is metadata for Twitter Cards. [2]

itemprop="description" is metadata in the microdata format [3]

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[1] http://ogp.me/

[2] https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview

[3] https://schema.org/docs/gs.html

Re:Wireless Das Keyboard Modification by darklajid on Monday May 18, 2015 @04:40AM (#9563344)
I know I'll pay for derailing this, but thanks a lot. My biggest confusion was that these overlap so much, and that they contain the full content.

Again, apologies. I just got curious and was hoping the author might share why this is the case.

Even after following your links I'm confused, but - I got the gentle nudge and understand that this isn't the right place to continue this.

og:description - "A one to two sentence description of your object."

twitter:description - "Description text will be truncated at the word to 200 characters."

itemprop="description" - "A short description of the item."