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Horrible idea. You move the "about" page to some monospace non-marked up page. This just creates an excuse not to make a dcent "about"page.

• j05h 16y ago
  When doing contract work, you don't normally get credit for a site on the about page. Sometimes you may get permission to add a footer link. I think this is great for those situations where you don't get either. My hope would be that most companies would not mind a simple text file in the root which isn't linked anywhere but is well-known. My portfolio of sites becomes verifiable. Yes, I built these sites, and here are the humans.txt files to prove it. I've been at plenty of companies and built many sites and can't really prove I had hand in putting building any of them.
  • limmeau 16y ago
    You could encode a fingerprint of a signing key in a comment tag and offer to sign doubtful peoples' nonces with that key.
  • mryall 16y ago
    You could just use a meta tag or link tag with rel="author". Both are hidden from users and, unlike this proposal, are also de facto standards for including author information in web pages.