NOtherDev / whatwebcando

An overview of the device integration HTML5 APIs
https://whatwebcando.today/
MIT License
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Add published date to articles #89

Open NOtherDev opened 2 years ago

NOtherDev commented 2 years ago

Originally sent by email by Rob:

Just visited: https://whatwebcando.today/articles/handling-service-worker-updates/

The title is: What Web Can Do Today

Good page. The absence of a specified page date undoes a lot of that good work.

It can be a hard task posting publicly because there's a high percentage of critical response. I don't like contributing to that critical response. Sorry.

It is frustrating to visit any page that is not dated. Your title refers to "Today". When is that? Makes the absence of a date on the page even more frustrating.

I don't think I'd be alone in skipping pages from google results when those pages turn out to be undated. Sometimes I'll close the page if there is no date at the top. Sometimes I'll scroll to the bottom looking for that date. Usually, if there is no date, the page is closed without reading. I doubt I'm alone in that behaviour.

In the case of this page, I scrolled to the bottom looking for a date. Was saved by the fact one of your screen shots contained a date that was relatively recent.

The absence of a date comes across as a deceitful attempt obfuscate any readers attempt to judge if a page is 'still relevant'. That's an unfortunate appearance for your page, as it actually is still relevant.