AP Review Compares Camino and Safari

Friday April 18th, 2003

Several online newspaper sites, including The Detroit News's detnews.com, are carrying an Associated Press review of Camino and Safari. The article states that both browsers "leave Internet Explorer in the dust" and "are very quick and accurately draw even complex Web pages."

#1 Mistyped Link

by MXN

Friday April 18th, 2003 8:01 PM

At the bottom, the article includes a mistyped link to the Camino page at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/ .

- MXN

#2 It is important to always give corrections.

by smkatz

Saturday April 19th, 2003 9:28 AM

I sent them a correction describing the anatomy of a URL. "to help avoid future errors." The URL they gave was:

http://www.mozilla.org/Projects/Camino

Sam

#3 Re: It is important to always give corrections.

by MozSaidAloha

Sunday April 20th, 2003 5:16 AM

Shouldn't URIs by case insentive? Anytime I type my website URL as:

WWW.JOSHUAHOLMAN.NET

www.JoshuaHolman.Net

www.joshuaholman.net

They resolve to the same place. What's the big deal here?

#4 Re: Re: It is important to always give corrections

by Sander

Sunday April 20th, 2003 6:06 AM

Domain names are case insensitive (or should be - iirc). Paths and filenames however most definitely aren't (well, they are on silly windows servers, but that's just because of the incapabilities of that OS).

#5 Case-sensitivity in URIs

by mpthomas

Sunday April 20th, 2003 9:28 PM

It's not because of incapabilities of the OS. It's because the Windows filesystem is designed (more) to be used by humans, and humans treat names as case-insensitive. The Mac fileystem is also case-insensitive, for the same reason. (Indeed, Apple went to some lengths to make programs like Apache behave properly in a case-insensitive environment, rather than taking the easy way out and making their filesystem case-sensitive.)

It's mainly primitive Unix filesystems which expose their ASCII/ISO/Unicode implementation by insisting on case-sensitivity. Fortunately, they are in the minority for desktop use. Unfortunately, their design flaws leak from servers to desktops in things like URIs, causing errors like the one discussed here.

Jakob Nielsen http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990321_comments.html : "What stupidity. *We don't need any more case-sensitive computers.*"

Jamie Zawinski http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/78731.html?thread=345483#t345483 : "If you have two distinct files which differ only in case, you're a pinhead and deserve to lose."

-- mpt

#6 Re: It is important to always give corrections.

by osoell

Tuesday April 22nd, 2003 11:03 AM

so you mean:

it is important always to give corrections, or it is important to give corrections always, yes?