Re: [whatwg] HTML as a text format: Should be optional?</span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=whatwg@lists.whatwg.org&q=from:%22Markus+Ernst%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Markus Ernst</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=whatwg@lists.whatwg.org&q=date:20090418" rel="nofollow">Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:32:37 -0700</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody"> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <pre style="margin: 0em;"> Øistein E. Andersen schrieb: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> On 18 Apr 2009, at 00:02, Randy Drielinger wrote:</pre><pre> </pre><blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><pre style="margin: 0em;"> If you're converting from a textfile, title could refer to the filename. </pre></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>It could, but chances are that the original filename would typically be </tt><tt>less useful than the URL, which is what most browsers use when the </tt><tt><title> element is omitted, so this rather sounds like an argument </tt><tt>against forcing authors to include a <title>. </tt></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"> </pre><tt>If there was a consent about making <title> optional, I'd suggest to use </tt><tt>the contents of the <h1> element as a replacement, if one is present, as </tt><tt><h1> represents the main title in the contents of a document. </tt> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg14449.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="thrd9.html#14450">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="mail10.html#14450">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg14443.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg14438.html">[whatwg] HTML as a text format: Should <title>...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Øistein E . 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