Re: What are these "many applications" ??

Unfortunately it is not very clear but this advice is mostly from 1992!

The overview page for this style guide says the following:
- http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/ [[
This document was written in the early days of the web (1992), defining 
such terms as "webmaster", the "www.xxx.com" convention, and a few basic 
points which are just as valid today.  It has not been updated to 
discuss recent developments in HTML., and is out of date in many places, 
except for the addition of a few new pages, with given dates.
]]

Side note: this particular page was last edited by TimBL in 1997.

The WCAG 2.0 techniques G88 and H25 provide more up-to-date guidance:
  - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G88
  - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H25

The latter also links to the relevant part of the HTML4 specification.

Best,
   Shadi


On 31.10.2013 07:00, Ganesh J. Acharya wrote:
> It's written "The title should ideally be less than 64 characters in
> length. That is, many applications will display document titles in window
> titles, menus, etc where there is only limited room."
> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/TITLE.html
>
> So what are these "many applications" to consider??
>
> The browse tabs today any way start reducing with size as soon as we start
> opening more pages... and even the 64 starts to look bigger and the
> complete title hardly appear any more... menu items are never as long as 64
> characters.
>
> So, what is applicable considering the current perspective.
>

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Activity Lead, W3C/WAI International Program Office
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