[opensource-dev] display names = the end of 1.x viewers?

[Andromeda Quonset]

Indeed.  Wasn't there an issue in recent weeks/month with regard to 
the forum software and the case of the first letter of a name?

At 04:23 PM 8/17/2010, you wrote:
>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 
><<mailto:bryon at slearth.com>bryon at 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" 
><<mailto:soft at lindenlab.com>soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Lance Corrimal
> > <<mailto:Lance.Corrimal at eregion.de>Lance.Corrimal at eregion.de> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> 
> <http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/08/17/display->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.
>
>
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