TriNetre - Archive for September 09, 2005
(no longer updated)
Security measures as found like devices like Sony P2P is turning out to be a cat and mouse game, and there is no surprise in it. Sony's original firmwares 1.0 was cracked to allow non-signed exe files to execute in P2P. Sony released firmware 1.5. Then came the exploit for that version. So what does Sony do? What else other than release versions 1.51 and 1.52!
There is no end in sight for this game, unless Sony changes its tactics.
Every HTML page should contain a title tag. However many websites just use a very generic word like the name of the website or author's name as the title for all the pages. Weblogs are also a culprit in this area. I have come across several blogs (some of which I regularly read) that use the name of the blog as the title for all the HTML page. This is a very bad thing to do, here is why.
Normally when we visit web pages, we rarely notices the title of the html page, but the title places a very important role when one uses tabs to open different pages in different tabs. What if I had opened five pages from Wired in five different tabs and all of them had the same title "Wired"? I will be confused which story is in which tab and will have to go through all the tabs to locate the story I am interested in. Similar problem occurs when I want to bookmark a page. The way I use my feed reader, I read all short and very interesting news then and there, but all less interesting or longer articles are bookmarked into a "To Read" list which I consume as my time allows. When I look at my bookmark the next time, I would have lost track of the story I had noticed in that page and unless the page had a distinct title, that particular story would remain in my list for a longer time, unread because I have no idea what it is about.
So, for everyone's sake, use a meaningful title for your web pages.
Interesting, I had written this a year ago and pushed it into the draft queue and surprisingly it is still relevant today!
Before anyone points out, my weblog entries do not have distinct post based title mainly because I archive post on a per-day basis and not per-post basis. Putting a post based title on a per-day post archive is something I have yet to figure out.
