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There really, really needs to be a leading underscore in the title. (The article linked to gets this right. The submitter seems to be reasonably clueful, so I w

by gjm11 17y ago

There really, really needs to be a leading underscore in the title. (The article linked to gets this right. The submitter seems to be reasonably clueful, so I wonder: did he get it right and the HN software screw it up?)

aaronbrethorst 17y ago
Smashing Magazine's title lacks the underscore, but the in-page title has one. HN's submitter bookmarklet copies the title tag's contents, and I neglected to fix it... update: there, fixed it. thanks :)
- iamdave 17y ago
  the w shouldn't be capitalized, either.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    _why really is a brand then.
    - ZeroGravitas 17y ago
      Why do you say that JackM?
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        Because nobody here would care if I would write 'zerogravitas' or 'ZeroGravitas' to indicate you. It's just a moniker, a handle. As soon as you start to assign great weight to the spelling and the special look ("It has to have an _") of a nickname then you're definitely in branding territory. Just like "The artist formerly called Prince" is a brand, so is "_why, they lucky stiff".
        gjm11 17y ago
        Some people care about the difference between "_why" and "Why". (Probably including the man himself.) Some people care about similar variations in brands. So far, so good. What's not clear (to me, at any rate) is how you get from these to "Therefore, _why's name is a brand". That would be reasonable if no one cared about details for any reason other than branding, but that's obviously false. Compare: "... then you're definitely in programming-language territory." (Almost all implementations of almost all programming languages care very much indeed about the difference between "Why" and "_why".) Or: "... then you're definitely in religious territory." (Some Orthodox Jews care very much about the difference between "G-d" and "God" even though the former is just a lightly modified version of the latter.) Or: "... then you're definitely in music territory." (In a musical score, adding or removing dots, little lines, funny characters, etc., can completely change the meaning.) Or: "... then you're definitely in vanity territory." (Some people just care a lot about appearances.) So ... why "branding", specifically?

by gjm11 17y ago

aaronbrethorst 17y ago

Smashing Magazine's title lacks the underscore, but the in-page title has one. HN's submitter bookmarklet copies the title tag's contents, and I neglected to fix it... update: there, fixed it. thanks :)

iamdave 17y ago
the w shouldn't be capitalized, either.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  _why really is a brand then.
  - ZeroGravitas 17y ago
    Why do you say that JackM?
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      Because nobody here would care if I would write 'zerogravitas' or 'ZeroGravitas' to indicate you. It's just a moniker, a handle. As soon as you start to assign great weight to the spelling and the special look ("It has to have an _") of a nickname then you're definitely in branding territory. Just like "The artist formerly called Prince" is a brand, so is "_why, they lucky stiff".
      - gjm11 17y ago
        Some people care about the difference between "_why" and "Why". (Probably including the man himself.) Some people care about similar variations in brands. So far, so good. What's not clear (to me, at any rate) is how you get from these to "Therefore, _why's name is a brand". That would be reasonable if no one cared about details for any reason other than branding, but that's obviously false. Compare: "... then you're definitely in programming-language territory." (Almost all implementations of almost all programming languages care very much indeed about the difference between "Why" and "_why".) Or: "... then you're definitely in religious territory." (Some Orthodox Jews care very much about the difference between "G-d" and "God" even though the former is just a lightly modified version of the latter.) Or: "... then you're definitely in music territory." (In a musical score, adding or removing dots, little lines, funny characters, etc., can completely change the meaning.) Or: "... then you're definitely in vanity territory." (Some people just care a lot about appearances.) So ... why "branding", specifically?