<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Sorry to disappoint, but I totally agree. :)<div><br></div><div>I’d go further to suggest we never use underscores in any URLs or public facing filenames that may end up in a URL (eg: a JPEG, MP3 etc).</div><div><br></div><div>My issue with underscores is legibility when viewed in an address bar context.</div><div><br></div><div>In a few previous jobs we set a best practice for filenames and URLs, which was: <b>1. All lowercase. 2. Only hyphens for “spaces", no underscores.</b></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On May 24, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jon Buckley <<a href="mailto:jon@mozillafoundation.org">jon@mozillafoundation.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">URL validators all over the Internet don’t validate urls that have underscores in the subdomain as valid. To prevent our users from having issues sharing their links to makes, we should prevent the creation of usernames with underscores in them. This would not affect current users.<br><br>I’ve filed this as <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1015639">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1015639</a> and would love to hear some dissenting voices :)<br><br>Jon<br>_______________________________________________<br>Webmaker-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org">Webmaker-dev@mozilla.org</a><br>https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/webmaker-dev<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>