Dear #Fediverse app devs (including the #mastodon web interface itself): PLEASE stop autocorrecting my #CamelCase'd hashtags into all-lower-case.
That's just silly. You should be autocorrecting lower case to camel case instead! Grab the list of all hashtags with the same letters without regard to case, and if there's a plurality of them with the same capitalization (not counting all-lower-case), suggest that. Duh! ;)
@RL_Dane
> PLEASE stop autocorrecting my CamelCase'd hashtags into all-lower-case
I second that.
You're not the first person I've seen expressing frustration about this. Maybe if we all open issues about it on the issue trackers of the apps we use, or add thumbs up to any existing ones, it might get fixed?
How does it apply to hashtags? Or would it replace hashtags? Seems a bit convoluted; not sure I'm understanding howard is to be used from my reading of the article
@RL_Dane it's not in use anywhere relevant but you could have URI-backed hashtags look the same generally but in the backend would refer to a particular URI and sprinkle in a little magic UI to help the user choose the one they meant
Having messed with that before it's a tough call if you want to autocomplete. We do that in case-insensitive way, but replace using the case of the first match we found. (Seems silly to offer multiple matches for the same tag with different capitalisations). If you don't accept the autocomplete, we'll take your version.
Not sure how to improve on this, but if anybody has strong feelings I'm willing to listen.
Yeah but we start auto-complete at Goo. For what it's worth we also accept "good day" and leave camelCase for the dromedaries and PascalCase to the Pascal developers.
Maybe what we should do is match any case at all if you type in lowercase only and switch to exact case match if you provide any caps. That might make more people happy.
@RL_Dane#PascalCase capitalises all the starting letters of words. #camelCase omits the first letter of the first word, for reasons best known to C++ gurus and no-one else...
lol, me neither. Just saw it in the wikipedia article. I remember there being two different names for thisThing and ThisThing, but I forgot what they were called. ;)
@RL_Dane That's when I click away from the post. It's a pain, and I agree with you. It would be nice if it auto-capitalized (though for some languages, like German, it might not be so easy b/c many words are compound).
@RL_Dane I just tried to update my #Moodle profile and add a picture and was informed I couldn't because my username had a capital (auntJames). So I dropped the case on the J... and was informed I couldn't update anything because that username was aready taken.
In terms of #accessibility, I am told that screen readers can use #CamelCase as hints for how to break up conjoined words. And they're just easier to read in general, e.g.
This right here - I read a post a while back by a screen reader using person that CamelCase is indeed helpful specifically to them. Before that I actually leaned towards going all lower for reasons of conformist urges in my own psyche, but I have always rather liked the overall camelCase concept.
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