Canonical Tag

[StandUpCubicles]

I've been helping someone out with their website, and I noticed the person who built the site made the canonical tags like this:
href="http://www.example.com/" rel="canonical" />

I'm use to seeing it how seomoz does it:

Does this matter? Is it ok to have it inverted?

They also have another canonical tag in there like this:
 var hs_canonical_url = "http\x3A\x2F\x2Fwww.example.com\x2Fhome"

Any idea what that is? Could it be hurting the site?

[RyanKent]

For your first question, the order of the link values does not matter. Either will work. You can declare the rel or href in either order.

[StandUpCubicles]

Thanks Ryan. I've noticed for pages like www.example.com/blog and www.example.com/blog**/**, the latter has a rel canonical = the first URL. but would this be better as a redirect?

[RyanKent]

Yes, definitely.