Sorry if lacked clarification, I was referring to the "current" residents names (as capitalized), NOT the new display name which will become the person's username as I understand it.
Because of the added flexibility with Display Names, I see it a good opportunity to enforce the official First and Last name both capitalized when shown and possibly clean up the legacy database of "First & Last" names. i.e. Someone named currently named "iama Linden" would be changed automatically to Iama Linden as his display name which he can change to lower case via his display name box he chooses so, like dahlia here does. Even if that was to apply to future usernames "when first chosen". You could very well enforce a first capital and still allow for lowercase display names after that, or even have a checkbox to prevent the automatic JavaScript capitalization at registration. But it would fair to say that lack of fist name capitalization due to users omission is much more common than a deliberate intent coming from the user. So I view "initial capitalization" as a default setting for that reason. And 2. you should also prevent anyone to use a display name baring the name of an existing username in my opinion. As per the FAQs: >Will you limit the number of people who use a particular Display Name? >No, because you can use username to uniquely identify individual avatars. There can be many Residents using John Smith as their Display Name, but you can discover which is which by looking at their username for example, in their profile. That's prone to problems of deceptive impersonations of existing avatar names and misunderstandings. Any display name should check against the username db. On 8/17/10 3:20 PM, "Marc Adored" <m...@inworlddesigns.com> wrote: > The purpose of this is to give people more freedom to express > themselves in their name. Therefore enforcing capitalization would > hinder that idea. A lot of people have usernames that are not > capitalized for a reason either for expression or because its to mimic > the proper name of something they like. like someone using iMonster or > something is a spoof of apples uses of lowercase i in front of their > products and people use it to mimic or mock apple. > > hope you understand what im trying to get to > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ 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
