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Subject: 
Re: Halloween Lego Design Contest Reminder and Update
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.publish
Date: 
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 17:30:28 GMT
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mattdm@SPAMCAKEmattdm.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
>   http://www.foo.foo/Case/Insensitive/Filename.html
> and then somewhere else you encounter a link made to that same document a
> slightly different way,
>   http://www.foo.foo/case/insensitive/filename.html
> then this causes the link to show in the wrong color -- unless your browser
> ignores case in URLs (which is isn't supposed to).

Not only that, but will the browser realize that it already has the document
in your cache? Probably not.


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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: Halloween Lego Design Contest Reminder and Update
 
(...) First, to be case-insensitive is to create a non-1-to-1 (and therefore non-invertible) mapping of characters which destroys the usefulness and expressiveness of 20% of the character set domain (about 1/3 of the typically usable characters). (...) (27 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)

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