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Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 02:48:29 GMT
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At 12:00 AM 4/15/99 +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, tcourtney@avenew.com (Tim Courtney) writes:
[...]
My stipulation was backed by Todd's technical explanation of how browsers
work with mixed case domains, and how the domains can cause conflict when
capitalized, etc. I agree with him that if the site is displayed as
LDraw.org than people will link to it as LDraw.org.  This is not good
given the browser problems that go along with capitalized domains.  [...]

How *some* browsers work, that is.  I only have two data points:
- Netscape Navigator 4.51 for Win95 colors the links wrong.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 for Win95 colors the links right.

Netscape Navigator represents a big enough share of the browser pie to make
domain capitalization games a problematic thing.

Right.  Personally, I use IE5 for browsing, but own a copy of Netscape 4.5
or something for checking browser compatibility.

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  Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
 
(...) Well, to me it looks like there are more interested in seeing the site named ldraw.org than The Ldraw Project....so that is what I will plan on calling it when I begin constructing images. My stipulation was backed by Todd's technical (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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