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

[axiom_of_stripe]

And there's the answer to my question if styles can overwrite the title -- thanks! *grin*

The question of whether the username or the page function is more specific depends on behavior, though: if you are looking at one person's profile, icons, and recent entries, then you're grouping by journal and the function is more specific, but if you're looking at three people's icons, then you're grouping by function and the username is more specific. When I have multiple DW tabs open, I'm almost always grouping by function to look at multiple people's journals (and I have the habit of hopping by direct URL to other pages of the same function for different journals, so to get from my icon page to yours, for example, I would just replace the "cmshaw" with "matgb", which encourages me in thinking of the icon page as the group which contains all of the icons of specific journals). However, if I'm an oddity and most people think of icons being inside journalspace -- which, now that I stop and think about it, is what the new DW URLs are saying, isn't it -- then the titles really should be flipped for everything so that journals are the group and the functions are the specifics. I suppose I'd get used to it quickly enough....

[matgb]

if I'm an oddity and most people think of icons being inside journalspace

It is inside journalspace-specifically, it can now be styled in S2, although I've yet to see anyone that's done it or figure it out (it was my project for the summer, but, well, less said about my projects this summer the better).

So yeah, flip everything so it's Page | Journal | Site where appropriate would be the best solution (I don't spend enough time on chrome pages to notice lack of decent title,s that's remiss of me).