Finger slipped on the "send" shortcut, continuing where I left off...
On 8/5/07, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And again, I'll reiterate that the type of user who doesn't understand > case-sensitivity is the type of user who -- verified by repeated > real-world usability testing -- finds MySpace by going to Google and > typing "myspace.com" into the search box. An astonishingly high > percentage of web users are unaware of the existence of the address bar in any way, shape or form. They're not the sort of people who type in the address bar to try to guess the right URL, and are likely to have only a foggy notion of the URL at all. Which is why your approach is problematic; you're simultaneously assuming familiarity and unfamiliarity with the Web on the part of users, to the point where you're advocating that in one case they're unable to figure out how a URL works but in another are able to do it just fine. Which, unfortunately, isn't the case in the real world, and trying to forcibly normalize URLs to a particular case won't work. And, incidentally, the HTTP spec states that while the host and scheme of an HTTP URL should be compared case-insensitively, it recommends (with an upper-case RFC "SHOULD") that the rest of it be compared case-sensitively. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
