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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 (...) (28 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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