HTML needs a "bookmark name" tag

[Ichinisan]

Does this already exist?

I've been helping someone who has a lot of trouble with the basics. He's building a list of bookmarks after losing everything and having lots of trouble with it. I've noticed practically everything we add to the bookmarks list has a completely non-descriptive worthless default name pulled from the web page title. It would sure be nice if web pages could have both a <title> tag and a <bookmarkname> tag. To avoid deception, perhaps it could require that "bookmarkname" be selected from a string of characters that are already in <title>.

 

[KB]

Most if not all browsers allow you to edit the bookmark name when you add the page to your favorites. A bookmark name was never added as a feature to HTML because the page title should be good enough. Unfortunately its one thing web designers often neglect.

 

[purbeast0]

i could see some use for it, but i think with the majority of pages now a days being dynamic webpages, it would be kind of pointless because it would have to be dynamically built, just like the title is.

for instance, i bookmark a lot of answers on stackoverflow that are things i may come back to, and i have them organized by categories as well. i usually change the title of the bookmark just to shorten it or to my wording, but sometimes i don't because the title of the question (which is the title of the page) is good enough.

i just don't see how many of these dynamic pages could do anything better than what they already do with the title. these forums, news websites, shops, etc. so many of these pages are dynamic with dynamically built titles that i just don't think having another dynamic field would make much sense.

 

[Rakehellion]

Most if not all browsers allow you to edit the bookmark name when you add the page to your favorites. A bookmark name was never added as a feature to HTML because the page title should be good enough.

This.

Unfortunately its one thing web designers often neglect.

Or they just SEO it to death.

 

[Ichinisan]

Most if not all browsers allow you to edit the bookmark name when you add the page to your favorites. A bookmark name was never added as a feature to HTML because the page title should be good enough. Unfortunately its one thing web designers often neglect.

Yeah, I know. I demonstrated how to do that 10 times.

As I feared, this guy accidentally deleted the folder with all the bookmarks and I helped him start re-creating them today. 🙄