Topic: Which is better? (Page 1 of 1) |
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: f(x) |
posted 04-27-2008 20:29
I was looking at some URLs on some Google results and saw that some used dashes while some used underscores and it got me wondering... |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Omicron Persei 8 |
posted 04-27-2008 20:44 |
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian From: Seoul, Korea |
posted 04-28-2008 02:25
None of my URLs have spaces in them, so I guess I bypassed this problem entirely as far as URLs go. For files on my computer (Word, etc.), I use underscores or just plain spaces, though. Hyphens* are for compound words or breaking words at the end of a line. Grumble has a point about underscores not being easily detectable when underlined (since that's technically what the underscore is: an underline), though. If I were faced with a situation where I did have URLs that needed spaces, I'd probably just eliminate the spaces altogether and stick the words together. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Norway |
posted 04-28-2008 02:32 |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: :morF |
posted 04-28-2008 13:30
emdash, endash, hyphen... so many names for a few pixels difference in display width |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: f(x) |
posted 04-28-2008 21:30 |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: zero divided. |
posted 04-29-2008 01:04
I suppose for URLs, if you see gaps (underlined), you can just presume they're underscores. I prefer underscores between words in a URL or a file name, and use hyphens grammatically. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Umeå, Sweden |
posted 04-29-2008 02:29
Indeed, since spaces are encoded as "%20" in URIs, you can pretty much assume all gaps are underscores in underlined URIs. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: :morF |
posted 04-29-2008 12:07
This is assuming it's a URL that's being displayed, and not some text to represent it as is so often used. |
Maniac (V) Mad Librarian From: Seoul, Korea |
posted 04-30-2008 02:17
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: :morF |
posted 04-30-2008 15:39
Hee! Damn, I was hoping for one. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Dublin, Ireland |
posted 04-30-2008 16:20 |