Boris Mann wrote:
On 9/13/06, Laura Scott <laura@pingv.com> wrote:
On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Khalid B wrote:
Can we also get feedback from the usability folks on this (Laura? Trae? others?)
This is not a usability issue. It's *almost* personal preference :P I disagree.
There's certainly a fair amount of evidence that mixed-case is, in general, easier to read than all upper case, and to a lesser extent, all lower case. While it would be a mistake to assume that data is conclusive for this particular situation (since reading menus or titles isn't the same as reading paragraphs of text), it's also a mistake to say that there are no usability implications. Also, user satisfaction is considered by many to be a usability attribute, or at least something that must concern the people who worry about creating usable interfaces. As you say, this involves personal preference, which is surely a user satisfaction issue. In other words, Drupal should support all variations, and hence the default should be chosen to make such support as simple and as straightforward as possible. To me, that suggests the default (which one way or another is set manually) should be the one that's most difficult to automate, i.e. some popular standard for capitalization of titles. Gary