No, it is not for creating toolbars &amp;c. _within_ the page, it's for creating toolbars &amp;.c within *the chrome* (i.e. the user-agent). Those menus can take on any form what-so-ever that is relevant to the particular device, OS, and input mechanism. For example, instead of a visual menu, it could be read aloud for blind users, or presented as a context menu on an HTML file in a file explorer, or even in forms and devices that haven't been imagined yet. The meta-tag method is a single-purpose, narrow view of the web.