- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:49:16 +0300
- To: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
2012-10-19 19:33, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >>> >>> Are there any situations that this doesn't handle where it would be >>> legitimate to omit a <title> element? >> >> Perhaps the simplest case is an HTML document that is only meant to be >> displayed inside an inline frame and containing, say, just a numeric >> table. It is not meant to be found and indexed by search engines, it is >> not supposed to be rendered as a standalone document with a browser top >> bar (or equivalent) showing its title, etc. > > The initial intent of such a document may be to only display it in a > frame, but since it's independently addressable, nothing stops a search > engine from referencing it, a user from bookmarking it, etc. So I don't > think that's an example of where omitting <title> is a good idea. Anyone who bookmarks a document that was not meant to be bookmarked should accept the consequences. But it seems that it is pointless to present any situations where it would be legitimate to omit a <title> element, since you are prepared to refuting any possible example by presenting how things could be different from the scenario given. >> "The title element represents the document's title or name. Yet you seem to deny, a priori, the possibility that a document does not need a title or a name. Yucca
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