- From: Brian Campbell <Brian.P.Campbell@dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:44:57 -0400
On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: >> For example, see Google Gadgets >> <http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/>, or iframe sandboxes used >> for isolating untrusted content while still being inline in the page. > > Yes, if we add doc="" support to <iframe> maybe that would make this > case > common enough that we should reconsider. I had to look up what doc="" meant, so for the edification of others, the proposal is here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008May/0326.html >> So, my recommendation is that <title> be made optional; perhaps a >> validator could issue a warning if you leave it off, but there are >> perfectly valid cases of wanting to produce an HTML document that >> doesn't have any sort of meaningful title or for which a title will >> never be seen or used, it doesn't seem likely that people will >> forget it >> in cases in which it's useful, > > I think this is something we should revisit in a future version. I'm > not > convinced we're at a stage yet where there are enough non-standalone > HTML > pages that it makes sense to not require <title> for any pages. > Changing > something this fundamental can have social repurcussions in the > community > that aren't obvious (e.g. old timers saying we're ruining HTML4), > and I > feel that we've done enough of that already with HTML5 without > changing > this also, frankly. Fair enough. I can definitely see the value in that argument. -- Brian
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