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Question aux personnes concernées et/ou expertes en accessibilité numérique :

Je me rappelle, il y a longtemps, que le camelCase (mettre une capitale à chaque nouveau mot) était bien mieux pour les hashtags. Cela facilitait la lecture, notamment avec les lecteurs d'écran.

Est-ce toujours le cas ?
Edit: Oui

(Je découvre d'ailleurs sur Wikipedia que j'utilise surtout le "PascalCase" puisque je mets aussi une capitale au 1er mot.)

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@angelastella

It's fine for code but also (a) harder to explain/teach, (b) harder to automate, (c) badly supported on Mastodon (incremental search usually smashes case).

I think Mastodon has gotten better at preserving #CamelCase in hashtags. #GoToSocial is working on it, it's still really bad right now (always flattening/tolower()-ing).

I can see being a bit harder to explain/teach, although I'm not sure what cases of automation you're referring to.

I guess my main thing (and perhaps it's a silly one) is that _ is harder to reach than just capitalizing (and not spacing out) the next word. XD

I have no issues with Pascal (Borland's implementations and docs were excellent), but I had to learn C immediately afterwards like everyone else.

I used Borland on the PC and Symantec/THINK on the Mac. Both absolutely lovely.
Symantec Pascal on the (emulated) mac was actually a stepping stone towards @neaoire@merveilles.town's development of #uxn, IIRC. They even developed a 3d game in Pascal on the Mac (heavily accelerated, of course)

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@h3mmy @rootsandcalluses is this the way to pedantry corner? Shall we head there together?

Camel case is the first letter of every word after the first capitalized. #camelCase. The first letter of every word, including the first is Pascal case: #PascalCase.

These are both terms of art in programming. Pascal case, in particular, comes from the Pascal programming language.

Title case is different in that minor words aren’t capitalized, and is used in literature (sort of, certainly not programming) for titles and headlines:

Netizens Discuss Capitalization in Pedantry Corner: Homo sapiens Mid-conversation Share

The above title confioms to the Chicago Manual of Style (whose title also conforms) by not capitalizing 4 of 11 words.

Now to make this useful: both camal case and Pascal case address the issue at hand; title case doesn’t, but the expression may be useful to communicate the idea of Pascal case to a general audience.

References:

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotn

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_ca

learn.microsoft.comCapitalization Conventions - Framework Design GuidelinesApply capitalization conventions for identifiers, compound words, and common terms. Understand how case sensitivity works in .NET.
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'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-y

@writing @sociology

Yours, Inigo · the liar's languageBy Inigo Laguda
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@jcsteh @joachim @juliette

Please DO capitalize the words within a hashtag.

camelCase and PascalCase are two very similar norms that allow words to be joined without hyphenation but distinguished by readers through capitalization of the first letters of words.

The difference is that Pascal Case requires the first letter of the first word to be capitalized but camel Case just insists on the following words. The two terms are often referred to without distinction here though.

Be aware that Mastodon autocomplete will offer up the first version created for a hashtag. So, it’s important to be careful to make sure a hashtag that you type isn’t autocompleted to a version without capitals.

Hey everyone,
If you want to help onboard new people, please check out or follow the hashtags #introduction #FirstPost #NewHere #NeuHier etc...

Boost the posts, say hi, welcome them to the Fediverse, follow them if you share interests, answer questions they might have and give tips and recommendations if you think they'll be appreciated.

You can also remind the new people of Fediverse etiquette in a friendly way when appropriate, but please don't be too pushy about it.
#AltText = caption = media description: describes media for the visually or acustically impared.
#CW = content warning: Hides post behind a trigger warning.
#CamelCase = writing each first letter of a compound hashtag in capitals to help with readability (esp. for screen readers)

Lets make sure the new people feel welcome and want to stay.