On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:25:21PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Darac Marjal wrote:On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote:updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even carrying a date.I always thougth that it was a big error of Tim Berners-Lee not oblige to date in a visible way all web pages.Which datestamp would you like? The date the page was served? The date the page was rendered? The date the page was authored? The date the article was authored? The date the software used to render the article was authored?If I write a site that scrapes questions from Stack Overflow for the purposes of serving ads alongside (you know the pages I mean), do you want me to put my date on there, or Stack Overflow's date?I don't think it'so complicated: when you write something, you add the date of the day you wrote it. when googling, a lot of time is wasted reading obsolete informations.. Do you imagine newspapers without the date, and people browsing these newspapers to find some information on past events?
My point is that while, back in the time Mr Berners-Lee created the web, pages used to be created statically, the vast majority of web pages these days are dynamic. In the early days, yes. publishing a web page was like publishing a news article. You wrote the HTML file, you saved that to a web server and you served that page. If we go with that idea, that would suggest that Google web pages (which, for argument's sake, we shall assume have a stable code base) would be dated from some months ago, based on when someone "wrote" the page. The date at which the google web results page was "written" has no relevancy on the freshness of the results.
Similarly, if we take the "date" to be the date the page is rendered, what use has that? Can you cite google and say "I was the top search for 'GoogleWhackBlatts' on Thursday 2nd May"? No, because Google's search results are dynamic. You can't look back at the archive to see how google looked the day you were born, etc.
I'm not saying that putting a date on "howto" pages, "reamde"s etc is not useful. I'm just saying that an "Authored on" date for EVERY web page doesn't make sense.
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