On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 18:33, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > That's the most annoying and broken thing about dos based web server, > > case insensitivity. Why should a and A be the same character? That's > > stupid. > > It is useful feature for a unix filesystem, and enviroments where the > benifit of ease of use is outweighed by a greater namespace. I am not > suggesting case sensitivity is not a useful feature but it is a broken > feature for a webserver. Tim Berners Lee designed http links to be it > case insensitve, it makes it sooo much easier and is a damned good idea in > that particular context. > > i dont know why i dont just totally ignore all email from you, even if it > is not deliberate you manage to consistantly piss me off. >
Hey, just /dev/null him with procmail if you don't want to hear from him... No need to get snooty and personal on a public mailing list when someone doesn't agree with your (IMHO unjustified and silly) rant. Case insensitivity creates a horrid ambiguity in filenaming. Tim did NOT design links to be case insensitive. Microsoft consistently creates ambiguous namespaces in filenaming schemes, creating all sorts of nasty gotchas. > could the developers who work on the website and actually care about it > being easy to use please consider this (or tell me what i need to do to > fix it when i have time). I'm sure the developers who work on the website 'care' about usability, nice attitude there... Michiel Toneman -- PGP: http://public.apenstaartje.nl/keys/toneman.asc
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