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Re: [hybi] WSTP? was: websocket WebSocket websockets Web Sockets ??????????

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Mon, 01 March 2010 09:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] WSTP? was: websocket WebSocket websockets Web Sockets ??????????
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 
> the spec is indeed inconsistent and uses "Web Socket", "WebSocket" and 
> even "Websocket".
> 
> This is not just in the document, but on the wire as the The Upgrade 
> request uses "WebSocket", while the 101 response uses "Web Socket".

This is actually consistent with what I described in my previous e-mail.


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> My suggestion: let's have the normal name be "WebSocket" in all 
> contexts, in APIs, in protocols and in English. The experience of 
> "HTML5" vs "HTML 5" makes me think that names differing only by a space 
> will needlessly confuse people.

Ok.

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