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Re: Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking

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Looking a bit further, news.yc doesn't seem to be very SEO friendly or accessible either. Maybe there was a reason for not needing to be SEO friendly, but not accessible? By this I mean that apart from the topic not being in the title, there's no use of HTML tags to confer semantics from the blocks of text, e.g. no use of H1-H6 tags, no use of lists for comments.

Is there a reason for this? I just thought it was good practice, but I'm still just starting out in web design.

Re: Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking

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post #3

You mean you want the submission title to be the title of the comments page about it?

Yes. Like now as I'm writing this reply if I wanted to bookmark this page, it would read "Y Combinator: Add Comment". From where you're reading it would read "Y Combinator Startup News". It would be more convenient for me if it was instead the original discussion/submission title. Right now, I copy the title beforehand, and paste it in when bookmarking.

Damn fast feedback, excellent work.

Re: Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking

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post #4
post #3

You mean you want the submission title to be the title of the comments page about it?

Yes. Like now as I'm writing this reply if I wanted to bookmark this page, it would read "Y Combinator: Add Comment". From where you're reading it would read "Y Combinator Startup News". It would be more convenient for me if it was instead the original discussion/submission title. Right now, I copy the title beforehand, and paste it in when bookmarking. Damn fast feedback, excellent work.

I second that. I bookmark many comments threads and the default title comes up as "Y-Combinator startup news". Then I copy the post title and paste it in my title field. It would be nice if I can skip the copy-paste step.

Re: Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking

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Looking a bit further, news.yc doesn't seem to be very SEO friendly or accessible either. Maybe there was a reason for not needing to be SEO friendly, but not accessible? By this I mean that apart from the topic not being in the title, there's no use of HTML tags to confer semantics from the blocks of text, e.g. no use of H1-H6 tags, no use of lists for comments. Is there a reason for this? I just thought it was good…

semantics are obsolete.

Re: Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking

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post #6

Looking a bit further, news.yc doesn't seem to be very SEO friendly or accessible either. Maybe there was a reason for not needing to be SEO friendly, but not accessible? By this I mean that apart from the topic not being in the title, there's no use of HTML tags to confer semantics from the blocks of text, e.g. no use of H1-H6 tags, no use of lists for comments. Is there a reason for this? I just thought it was good…

semantics are obsolete.

care to elaborate?

Re: Vote up if you want the submission title displayed as your browser title for bookmarking

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post #8

Come on people use the feature request link!!!!

Not the most effective method of eliciting a response, so far as I can tell. I submitted this same request a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9337
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