- From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 00:42:29 +0300 (EEST)
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
On 2002-09-12, Etan Wexler uttered to www-html@w3.org: >Now it is the responsiblity of user agent designers to give us user >agents that process headings in an optimal manner (for example, adding >the text of a heading to a document window's title bar). Quite. Still, I think headings in content are quite a different thing from headings in document head/metadata. Why? Because the online environment often dictates approaches different from an all-paper one. In the latter, one usually takes the first content heading as the document one. In the former, at least I tend to take a different approach. Here what the user sees contentwise is the least he needs to see, based on usual hypertext semantics. As the document title, OTOH, I tend to set something meaningful to someone popping up on the site from a search engine, or comparable outside-context referrers. That way, headings in content are sensible in context, while titles in document metadata (which is what <head/> contains) belong more in the realm of out-of-band, identifying data. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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