Posted by Neredbojias on 12/17/06 17:57

To further the education of mankind, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> vouchsafed:

> Scripsit Neredbojias:
>
>> I think it's the dashes (hyphens) in the filename,
>
> What makes you think so?

In the (-fairly distant) past, I've had trouble with things loading if
there were dashes in the filenames. These "things" were probably .htm
pages rather than images, but there was a problem therein which removing
the dashes corrected. I never analyzed or unambiguously identified the
exact cause of the problem because my real goal was just to prepare a
working page.

> I've never seen them cause trouble on web
> pages. I presume you're referring to the ASCII hyphen, i.e.
> hyphen-minus; other dashes and hyphens surely cause problems.
>
> Hyphens cause problems when URLs are presented in print media, since
> word processors and typesetting programs typically treat a hyphen as
> allowing a line break after it, resulting in ambiguities (is the
> hyphen at the end of a line part of the URL or not).
>
>> although having
>> capitals and constructs like "%20" probably isn't a good idea,
>> either.
>
> They may confuse people, but technically they're safe.

Since you state what you do (-and I have little doubt that you are
correct), I suppose either modern browser/programming has eliminated the
effect I ran across or there was actually some other problem I failed to
identify.

--
Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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