2012-10-19 19:33, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
Are there any situations that this doesn't handle where it would be
legitimate to omit a <title> element?
Perhaps the simplest case is an HTML document that is only meant to be
displayed inside an inline frame and containing, say, just a numeric
table. It is not meant to be found and indexed by search engines, it is
not supposed to be rendered as a standalone document with a browser top
bar (or equivalent) showing its title, etc.
The initial intent of such a document may be to only display it in a
frame, but since it's independently addressable, nothing stops a search
engine from referencing it, a user from bookmarking it, etc. So I don't
think that's an example of where omitting <title> is a good idea.
Anyone who bookmarks a document that was not meant to be bookmarked
should accept the consequences.
But it seems that it is pointless to present any situations where it
would be legitimate to omit a <title> element, since you are prepared to
refuting any possible example by presenting how things could be
different from the scenario given.
"The title element represents the document's title or name.
Yet you seem to deny, a priori, the possibility that a document does not
need a title or a name.
Yucca
