The fact that people have lower case first names isn't always a typo, in many cases it is intended. Please do not force capitalization on names.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Bryon Ruxton <br...@slearth.com> wrote: > As you are implementing this, you may to consider forcing capitalization > via > JavaScript or else on the first name (from the official actual username) > e.g. "first Linden" look bad as if there is a typo in there and such proper > nouns are normally capitalized. > > I have always found it annoying to see lowercase first names. It is > probably > mostly a result of omissions, but also tends to happen more frequently with > younger users. And as we "officially" will get 16 and 17 years old it is > much more likely to happen. > > It happens a lot in shopping carts or any web user database if you don't > automatically capitalize first and last names or addresses by code, which I > now tend to do to prevent such inconsistence in postage labels, etc... > It would make for a more consistent database too. > > On 8/17/10 2:41 PM, "Brian McGroarty" <s...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Lance Corrimal > > <lance.corri...@eregion.de> wrote: > >> ... > >> http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/08/17/display- > >> names-bringing-greater-self-expression-to-second-life > >> > >> ... I guess that means the end for logging in with 1.x based viewers, > >> does it? > > > > Old viewers will continue to work. Old accounts would continue to log > > in as they do today. New accounts log in with their username as their > > first name and "Resident" as the last name. (For the difference > > between username and Display Name, see the FAQ linked at the end of > > the blog post). > > > > Under the hood, for all legacy viewers and scripts, the only real > > change is that new accounts created after some point will only ever > > have "Resident" as a last name. The new Display Names won't replace > > usernames in any location within an old viewer. > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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