[patch] Reorder titles in the django documentation

[anonymous]

The titles in the Django Documentation are far from being useful if you want to really learn Django and have several tabs open at once. All I can see is "Django | Documentation.." and that on every tab (of at least 10). That's why I request that you reorder the titles so that the actual content title goes first, for example "Sessions | Documentation | Django". I already got headaches from clicking around on my tabs to see what page is open where.

[James Bennett]

I'm not sure this would really be helpful; different browsers truncate tab titles in different ways, and there's no particular order which is guaranteed to always show the "most relevant" bit when the tab title gets truncated.

[anonymous]

The suggest order would indeed improve usability. As you can read at ​http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/document_titles_and_title_separators/ it is recommended by web design professionals such as Roger Johansson.

[JayK]

And from the article posted there's a link to Adrian's blog that says the same thing (headline first, title second):

​http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2002/10/25/1742

"With that in mind, it appears the best solution is "headline, site name" -- the technique used by washingtonpost.com. That lets users scan a list of titles easily while retaining the site's name for purposes of branding and familiarity."

[James Bennett]

If we want to talk about the usability of the order, in the context of reading the entire title, than that's a different story. But the fact remains that in the context of tabs truncating page titles, there is no one solution because browsers don't all truncate in the same way, which is why I closed this the first time around.

[Adrian Holovaty]

I agree that we should fix this on the Django documentation titles; "Django" should be at the end of the titles, not the beginnings.

[adurdin at gmail dot com]

Patch to django_website to reorder titles

[Jacob]

Hello anonymous - please don't reopen tickets without a reason!

[Jeremy Dunck <jdunck@…>]

There is a greasemonkey user script that programmatically does this for you on the client-side: GreasemonkeyScriptForSmallTitles

[anonymous]

this is useful, change the titles!

[Jacob]

Please stop reopening this one; it's been discussed to death.

[anonymous]

For goodness sake, use Ctrl-F (Cmd-F)! :)