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does it matter at all what order the <link> or <script> or <meta> tags are in in the <head></head>?
(daft question but one of those things i’ve never given any thought to until now.)
The accepted answer is kind of wrong, depending on the encoding of the document. If no encoding is sent by in the HTTP header, the browser has to determine the encoding from the document itself.
If the document uses a
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' …declaration to declare its encoding, then any ASCII-valued character (character code < 128) occurring before this statement must be an ASCII value, as per HTML 4 spec. Therefore, it’s important that thismetadeclaration occurs before any other element that may contain non-ASCII characters.