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There's two pieces of text relevant: the "extended" description that introduces the site to people who don't already know it (such as search-engine users), and
by thristian 16y ago
There's two pieces of text relevant: the "extended" description that introduces the site to people who don't already know it (such as search-engine users), and the "short" description that has the site's actual branding for people who are already familiar with it.
In an ideal world, the <title> element would contain the short description, for bookmarking purposes, while the OpenSearch metadata would contain the extended description for search engines. It's kind of unfortunate that it's the opposite way around.
- Xuzz 16y agoThanks for saying that much better than me.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoUse user-agent or javascript to do this. Seems like a good idea. I'd much rather see "HN | Startup Title Ju..." than "Hacker News | Startu..." in my tab. Especially if I'm trying to remember which HN tab I'm trying to get back to. (edit: actually "HN | Startup Title Junk" all fits in the tab with my font config)
- Xuzz 16y agoOr even "Startup Title Junk | Hacker News" -- that keeps the full title, and makes it show up right in your tab.