Hello,
I've posted the bug 6691 and it was (in my opinion unsubstantiatedly) closed twice as
invalid while it is definitely not.
Here's the issue:
In "/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css" there's property assignment
"text-transform: lowercase;" in ".portlet h5" selector. This
assignment is wrong and does not have any sense or justification.
There are several cases, when users would like to have either capital or uppercase letters
in headers of sections in sidebar. Two major cases are using of proper names (consider
Wikipedia with capitals on one hand, but also cases like iPOD eg. with some uppercase
letters wherever in the name on the other hand as well) and languages using capital
letters (such as de or als for nouns, or other languages having habits to write headlines
with capital letter(s)).
Default instalation of MediaWiki _should not_ have this kind of restrictions and _should
not_ add unnecessary work - users _should not_ be pressurized to edit more files than
really necessary. So if they want to change sidebar content, why should they have to
change stylesheets?
I've also got feedback from some users who have been confused about this - they wrote
something and it appeared in different way. Default installation of MediaWiki _should not_
be confusing.
Please remove that property assignment according to the reasons described above. It's
better to have people to add features and properties instead of superfluously override
them. If they will really _need_ to or _want_ to have everything lowercased (my point of
view is this will be significant minority) they will change it. Please make it more
user-friendly. Please give users the liberty to choose and do not impose such restrictions
on them.
Thanks
Danny B.