I'd like to see some documentation of this - I can NOT confirm it. You will need to provide links to w3c specs showing this, or at least provide more details I guess.
For example, pages pass the w3c's validator as xhtml 1.0 strict with <title> elements coming either before or after <meta> elements. As far as html 4.01 is concerned, the w3c spec on this page:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html
...only specifies that every document head must contain a <title> element - it makes no claim about where that element must be placed. Furthermore, that same page passes validation:
http://tinyurl.com/5957o (scroll down and view the source)
...even though it places a <meta> element BEFORE the <title> element in the source.
In fact, I was under the impression that, if the <meta> element is used to set the page's language, that IT had to come first in the <head> - but I can't document this either. Please provide some more information.
-Christopher
edited on: 21.10.04 03:16
edited on: 21.10.04 03:17