- From: Abigail <abigail@fnx.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 23:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
- To: chad@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chad Owen Yoshikawa)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
You, Chad Owen Yoshikawa, wrote on May 11: ++ ++ > The TITLE of a document has a very specific purpose. To UNIQUELY identify ++ > the document in human-readable terms. That's a very important property that ++ > most designers ignore. I've seen whole sites that use the same TITLE over ++ > tens of pages. A document's TITLE is obviously required and should be made ++ > as unique as possible, so as to distinguish it from others. ++ ++ I thought about this, but the TITLE isn't unique. It's not ++ like a filename, since the URL serves that purpose. No, not really. HTML document can exist without being on the web; for instance HTMLized manuals on a CD-ROM. Furthermore, documents on the web may have more than one URL; or a document moves to a different URL - without changing the title. Abigail
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