adding more documentation to why charset and X-UA-Compatible meta tag…

…s are before the title element
paulirish · Nov 17, 2010 · 850e08e · 850e08e
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@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@
 <!--[if IE 8 ]>    <html lang="en" class="no-js ie8"> <![endif]-->
 <!--[if (gte IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <html lang="en" class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
 <head>
+  <!-- encoding must be specified within the first 512 bytes www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#charset -->
   <meta charset="utf-8">
 
   <!-- Always force latest IE rendering engine (even in intranet) & Chrome Frame 
        Remove this if you use the .htaccess -->
+  <!-- This needs to be before all elements except title & meta msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx --> 
+  <!-- Chrome Frame is only invoked if meta tag is within the first 1K bytes code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23003 -->    
   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
 
   <title></title>