Purpose of meta name? - Post ID 160065

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What is the purpose of <meta name="generator" and <meta http-equiv="generator" ?

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Where have you seen <meta http-equiv="generator" ?

Usually the two metatags below tell the browsers what character encoding is needed to show a document and to tell anyone who is interested which programme was used to create the site. The first one is very necessary, the second one is handy.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com)">
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