On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pessimistic about the amount of work to hand craft page titles. We have > at least 375 templates which translates to at least that many pages. Look > how much effort it was just to do mechanical conversions of templates. It's > going to be a huge amount of work to first think of a useful title, bikeshed > on that a bit, make the change, and update the tests.
The problem with looking at it this way is that in fact we don't have 375 pages of equal importance. Just click around the site and you get a much more manageable number of pages that could have reasonable titles crafted for them. So maybe it is more work to hand craft, maybe it isn't. At the least, it's debatable, and certainly, we're sacrificing usefulness on the important pages for the sake of the work dealing with the less important pages. As I said to Barry on a voice call, I don't see why we can't have both -- a nicely crafted title when it matters and fallback to reverse breadcrumbs. I was under the impression that we couldn't have this for the sake of consistency -- based on the UI meeting notes -- so if presented with an either/or choice, I think human-readable titles are preferable. I suspect, too, that we're only counting the cost of reverse breadcrumbs in terms of the initial work between the two options and not considering the ongoing cost of little tweaks to the system, bugs continually filed when a certain page doesn't work well in the latest version of the pattern, and general noise about these weird and geeky page titles. :) Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
