- From: Andy H <aholmes84@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:35:50 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
>The naughty author can use empty content: > ><title></title> > >That is as useless as the absence of a 'title' element. So the question is >whether requiring a 'title' element encourages writing an actual title. I >think that the requirement does encourage good writing, but I would like to >see evidence supporting or contradicting this assumption. > I agree, having the title element manditory for valid markup just encourages possible misuse of it simply to validate code not unlike using an empty alt attribute in an image element. If the title was defined in a meta tag, maybe a default fall-back value for title could be used such as the absolute URI of the document or "Untitled". _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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