[WEB4LIB] Re: Uploading graphics

[Dan Lester]

At 04:51 AM 12/22/99 -0800, Debra Lords wrote:
>Actually, planning on case insensitivity is incorrect.  Depending
>on the WebServer (not the OS of the box, but the WebServer
>Engine), case sensitivity can be a factor.
>
>Compare:
>http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bean/research.html
>http://www.cs.utah.edu/~Bean/research.html
>http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bean/Research.html

No one said that you should plan on case insensitivity.  The message said 
that on MS's NT and IIS it was insensitive.  And that was said in response 
to a specific incorrect comment about NT.

I think we're all in agreement that you should ALWAYS use lower case, NEVER 
use spaces in a file name, in order to maximize ease of access.

My personal suggestion is that you never use underscores, as they're easily 
missed by the novice when they get hidden by the underlining in a link.  I 
also always use . (periods, dots) between parts of file names when I want 
to distinguish words for another reason.  They're much easier to type than 
an underscore or a hyphen.  o-)

cheers

dan

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