User-specific pages should show username in the browser title

[azurelunatic]

Title:
User-specific pages should show username in the browser title

Area:
icons, memories making things make sense

Summary:
The browser title for user-specific pages like icons and memories should also include the username, especially when it's not your own journal.

Description:
Currently, the /icons page (for example, http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/icons ) merely has "Icons" as the page title. Something like "Icons - username" might be more useful, especially if someone has multiple tabs open with multiple people's icon pages. Memories (/tools/memories?user=example) has the same problem.

I prefer little-endian (most-specific first, out to least-specific) page titling, for example "Icons - azurelunatic - Dreamwidth" although places like the profile page have the username first in the title and then the specific page title, so it should probably be standardized across the site at least as far as pages in the main site style go.

Poll #7989 User-specific pages should show username in the browser title

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 74

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Should be implemented as-is.
57 (77.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (9.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (2.7%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (10.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I'm totally not picky about which way it is, so long as it's standard across the site.

[axiom_of_stripe]

I can count four different standards right away, I'm afraid:
* dw_suggestions | Recent Entries (the standard for styled journal pages except entries)
* dw_suggestions - Community Profile (the standard for the profile page)
* Icons (the standard for site-schemed pages)
* dw_suggestions: User-specific pages should show username in the browser title (the standard for entries)

I accept having entry pages different on the grounds that the title there is actually a different sort of thing from the title of the other pages, since it's user-generated and based on content rather than site-generated and based on function.

However, I definitely agree with you that having the other types of page titles set to a uniform standard would be nice! If they do get flipped, I'd like for them all to get flipped.

(Can styled pages set their own titles in S2?)

[matgb]

Can styled pages set their own titles in S2?)

Yes, I wrote a partial howto awhileback but it needs updating.

(still working on getting Tags to display properly, currently my layout page gets the title "dreamwidth: layout entries in | Mat Bowles", think I can improve it a bit but may need to remove the pipe, which I like on other pages)

[feathertail]

Hot dang. >.>;

+1 that they need to be standardized and have the user name added.

[existence]

+ 1 for consistency in default names.

[jeshyr]

+1 for reasonable consistency

[the_shoshanna]

Ditto.