starting an image name with a number

[windandwaves]

Is it legal to call an image 83.jpg or 1.gif or should it start with a
letter.

I am sure the guidelines tell me it should start with a letter, but does it
matter in real life?

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

Is it legal to call an image 83.jpg or 1.gif or should it start with a
letter.

I am sure the guidelines tell me it should start with a letter,

Which guidelines are those?

but does it
matter in real life?

Hope not. Most of my photo's on my weblog start with a number refering to the
date they were taken (like 20050930 for today, yyyymmdd).


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[Adam Pflug]

It's perfectly fine to label images with names begining with numbers,
however I find that this makes the code slightly less readable in the
end. Other than that there isnt a whole lot wrong with it.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Is it legal to call an image 83.jpg or 1.gif or should it start with a
letter.

I'm pretty sure that no land in the world would legislate against using
a number to start a filename.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

It's perfectly fine to label images with names begining with numbers,
however I find that this makes the code slightly less readable in the
end. Other than that there isnt a whole lot wrong with it.

What are you replying to? Please quote properly - even the crappy
Google Groups interface allows you to do this.

 

[Ken]

Hi Hywel -

I'm pretty sure that no land in the world would legislate against using
a number to start a filename.

That's because you're not in the United States. The U.S. Congress is
quite capable of passing a law that stupid and useless.

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, windandwaves quothed:

Is it legal to call an image 83.jpg or 1.gif or should it start with a
letter.

I am sure the guidelines tell me it should start with a letter, but does it
matter in real life?

In real life, the only things that matter are survival and viagra.

 

[Greg N.]

What are you replying to? Please quote properly - even the crappy
Google Groups interface allows you to do this.

Don't be ridiculous. If a post replies to the subject and nothing but
the subject, even the most finnicky stickler should be able to
comprehend the contribution without a quote.

 

[John Smith]

Is it legal to call an image 83.jpg or 1.gif or should it start with a
letter.

I am sure the guidelines tell me it should start with a letter, but does it
matter in real life?

commit this page to memory:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp

 

[Spartanicus]

commit this page to memory:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp

That might serve some purpose if the OP is interested in the
restrictions, and idiocies of a MS OS. But the MS anomalies are unlikely
to be relevant to the www.

 

[Toby Inkster]

commit this page to memory:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp

And then ignore it when building WWW-sites, which are mostly not hosted on
FAT or NTFS file systems.

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

Don't be ridiculous. If a post replies to the subject and nothing but
the subject, even the most finnicky stickler should be able to
comprehend the contribution without a quote.

The post isn't replying to the subject - there's not a question in
there.

 

[Greg N.]

The post isn't replying to the subject - there's not a question in
there.

You're confusing reply and answer.

Merriam-Webster says:
- reply: to respond in words or writing
- answer: something spoken or written in reply to a question

So, if the subject is "Rain in Rome"
The sentence "it rarely rains in Rome" is indeed a reply to the subject.

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, Greg N. quothed:

You're confusing reply and answer.

But both are *responses* and used pretty much interchangeably like
"sum" and "total".

Merriam-Webster says:
- reply: to respond in words or writing
- answer: something spoken or written in reply to a question

So, if the subject is "Rain in Rome"
The sentence "it rarely rains in Rome" is indeed a reply to the subject.

If not in question-form, I'd think you'd reply to the *content* of the
subject rather than the subject itself.