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Necessary to advertise a name in lower case?

www.MyName.com or www.myname.com

         

kapow

6:54 pm on Sep 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Is it necessary to advertise a name in lower case?
e.g. on headed paper, business cards, newspaper ads etc.
e.g. www.MyName.com or www.myname.com

I would rather say www.MyName.com as it is easier to read.

Is it a matter of personal choice or are there any significant browsers that will error if some capital letters are typed in the address bar?

I'm not asking what people think is nice or not nice. I need to know if there are any significant technical problems that will arise from advertising a name with some capital letters in it.

jdMorgan

7:08 pm on Sep 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Kapow,

Domain names are not case-sensitive, while file (page) names are.

Try it yourself: [WebMasterWorld.Com...]

Jim

kapow

7:24 pm on Sep 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Yep - its fine on my PC+IE6

But would anyone out there have a problem if I print the name as www.MyName.com?

ps: I know what you mean about file names, am very careful to only use lower case.

jdMorgan

7:58 pm on Sep 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

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> But would anyone out there have a problem if I print the name as www.MyName.com?

No. Not with any standard browser.

Along the chain of technology between a client browser and a server, no-one cares about uppercase/lowercase issues until you hit the file system of the server. Since some filesystems are case-sensitive, pages and filenames *are* case-sensitive. Other than that, no-one cares.

CMA: I suggest you take a look at competitive advertising (see if they used uppercase/mixed-case) and test with several browsers before you take my word for it -- I'm just quoting the practical results of the HTTP protocol [w3.org] specifications as I understand them (See section 3.2.3).

Jim