-----Original Message----- From: Frank Wales > My objection would be to the 'forward' part, but I guess a non-trivial number of people still get > 'backslash' wrong (due, no doubt, to the bone-headed adoption of '\' as the DOS path separator by > Microsoft, as a result of being frivolously different from Unix, as far as I know).
To be fair, our standards have said for a long time... "3.3.5.1. All BBC public service web sites and services MUST be promoted using the following syntax: 3.3.5.2. bbc.co.uk/sitename " The URL should be pronounced as: o 'bbc dot co dot uk slash sitename' o The 'slash' element MUST NOT be read aloud as 'forward slash'." - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/desed/urls.shtml Trouble is, not many TV & radio announcers read the New Media URL guidelines :-) Brendan. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
