Name of the files

[Toby A Inkster]

Because IE is dumb, basically. It wont work, even if the content type is
right.

Not really. Sure, it second-guesses Content-Types *occasionally*, but only
in quite rare situations. You will almost never have problems serving
extensionless files with the correct Content-Type. (You will run into
problems if you deliberately serve an HTML-like file as text/plain or
application/octet-stream)

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Ignore point #4. It's braindead.

Not wanting to criticise without offering a better alternative:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

 

[Mitja]

Because IE is dumb, basically. It wont work, even if the content type
is right.

Not always true. I've written is scriptlet to play around with:
www.oktaeder.com/test/content.py

Even http://www.oktaeder.com/test/content.py/text/plain.html works for me,
although http://www.oktaeder.com/test/content.py/text/plain.doc admittedly
doesn't as it should.

 

[Ilya]

I wonder whether it is better to write the name of files which are made of
more than one word separating words by "-" or "_" or not separating them at
all.

Since it looks like it doesn't really matter
I suggest "-" as one (you mostly) usually won't
have to press shift for that.

 

[Kris]

I wonder whether it is better to write the name of files which are made of
more than one word separating words by "-" or "_" or not separating them at
all.

Since it looks like it doesn't really matter
I suggest "-" as one (you mostly) usually won't
have to press shift for that.[/QUOTE]

I was told that Google sees dashes as term delimiters, but treats terms
delimited by underscores as one term. So,

deutschland_alles_ist_vorbei

would be seen as one term and may be found in search results when
visitors of Google look for that exact phrase. However,

deutschland-alles-ist-vorbei

may be found for any combination of separate terms, like, "deutschland
vorbei" or "alles vorbei".

Sources?
<http://www.googlerank.com/articles/dashes-or-underscore/dashes-or-unders
cores-in-google.html> (URL may wrap in your Usenet client)
<http://www.buy-the-domain-name.com/SS-Do-Dashes-Or-Underscores.htm>