Re: Feedback on XHTML 2.0 WD (20030131)

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:19:18PM -0800, Etan Wexler wrote:
| 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.

Here is some evidence showing that having a <title/> element does not 
neccessarily encourage good titles:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22untitled+document%22
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Welcome+to+Adobe+GoLive+%22
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22insert+document+title%22
http://www.google.com/search?q=allintitle%3A+%22page+title%22

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