[whatwg] Applications and document titles

[Bjartur Thorlacius]

On 2/13/11, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com> wrote:
> The initial application page might be e.g. "Inbox - Fancy Pants Mail" but
> the application name would still be "Fancy Pants Mail". It's useful for
> these to be separate fields. I don't think <meta name=title> is valid by
> the way.
>
If that's the case, then why can't this be used for brand names in general?
It's not hard to imagine a collection of documents, that's not defined as an
"application", to share brand for marketing reasons. Why make the
distinction between "applications" and other documents?