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By Alvin Soon - on 21 Dec 2010, 10:04am

Browser Title Junk

 John Gruber of Daring Fireball calls out websites with long, nonsensical headlines in their browser titles.

An awful lot of websites use patterns for page titles that are ugly, hard-to-scan, and/or just plain stupid. Consider Ebert’s review again:

“2001” — the Monolith and the Message :: rogerebert.com :: News & Comment

The pattern is obvious: headline, space, double colons, space, “rogerebert.com :: News & Comment”. Why “space double-colon space”? No one punctuates with colons like that. The Chicago Sun-Times would never think of using colons like this in their print edition — but they misuse colons like this, twice, on every single review on Roger Ebert’s website. Why the “News & Comment” detritus at the end?

Worth the read for all webmasters out there who love superfluous titles.

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