[WEB4LIB] Re: Uploading graphics

Avi Rappoport avirr at LanMinds.Com
Wed Dec 22 12:52:22 EST 1999


At 8:36 AM -0800 12/22/1999, Dan Lester wrote:
>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-)

Dots can confuse stupid web clients such as robots which see the dot 
and think the next thing will be a file type extension.

I agree on underscores, I use hyphens (even knowing that they can 
cause line breaks when printed).  You can't win!

Avi
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