Here’s the rule: no URL (or URI, if you’re being pedantic) may contain any spaces whatsoever. This means all folder names, all file names, must have no spaces anywhere in them.
People break this rule all the time, but that still doesn’t make it right. Browsers silently correct a million mistakes a minute in poorly-coded HTML, but in doing so they have to guess. When they guess, they don’t all guess in the same way, and that’s where browser-dependent bugs come up that you can’t diagnose without a copy of Windows XP Service Pack 3 Revision level 48375.
Set out to make your pages and sites as correctly as you can, because that moves the chance of error further into the “can’t happen” end of the meter.
Walter
On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:46 AM, RavenManiac wrote:
But, when I name a PDF I can’t use spaces, correct? In other words, I’d have to name the file something like:
I see your points. As Mac user, who used to have issues with long filenames, I’m always a little hesitant to use names that long, but I guess that’s not a problem these days.
As for the map, I’ll need to give that some thought.
On 28 Jun 2012, 11:34 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
I’d have to name the file something like: cemetery_map.pdf
But why not williamsburg_memorial_park_map?
If they are looking for a home for their dearly departed they may have any number of cemetery_map.pdf files!
are you suggesting no picture frame, or something more upscale, like a gold leafed frame?
I am suggesting something simple that looks more like a map and less like an aerial picture of my Golf Course that I have lifted off the study wall.
Now, the shoe is on the other foot. 255 characters (but none of them are spaces) ought to do the trick, right? (Unless you are hosting on IIS, where you have to keep the entire path length to 255 characters or the server blows up.) Windows and Mac desktops have no trouble with filenames up to 255 characters.
Walter
On Jun 28, 2012, at 7:45 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
I see your points. As Mac user, who used to have issues with long filenames, I’m always a little hesitant to use names that long, but I guess that’s not a problem these days.
As for the map, I’ll need to give that some thought.
On 28 Jun 2012, 11:34 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
I’d have to name the file something like: cemetery_map.pdf
But why not williamsburg_memorial_park_map?
If they are looking for a home for their dearly departed they may have any number of cemetery_map.pdf files!
are you suggesting no picture frame, or something more upscale, like a gold leafed frame?
I am suggesting something simple that looks more like a map and less like an aerial picture of my Golf Course that I have lifted off the study wall.
