Re: Lowercase TR shortnames for svg specs from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2014-03-10 (public-svg-wg@w3.org from January to March 2014)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:59:27 -0700
To: Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com>
Cc: "public-svg-wg@w3.org" <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCB-GOehhwi8WUBcZJZ8R9ByARfF4H7Xpdz=fiT3NZ2dQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Erik Dahlström <ed@opera.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> just noticed today that the redirects for the TR pages for the svg specs go
> from lowercase to uppercase.
>
> I'd prefer the lowercase versions be the canonical urls, instead of the
> uppercased ones.
>
> Some examples of the redirects today:
> http://w3.org/TR/svg -> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
> http://w3.org/TR/svg11 -> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
> http://w3.org/TR/svg2 -> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/
>
> What do people here think about changing the redirects to be the other way
> around? SVG -> svg and so on.

I'm in favor.  We lowercase all the CSS spec names, and I generally
consider capitals in a url to be bad design.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 10 March 2014 17:00:17 UTC