Capitalization: "User Agent" or "user agent"

[frivoal]

CSS specs are inconsistent as to whether user agent should be capitalized "user agent" or "User Agent". While this is clearly not a major issue, it would be nice to be consistent. A naive bit of grepping suggests that the all lower-case variant is more common, so I'd suggest we align the rest to that.

csswg-drafts$ grep "User Agent" */Overview.bs |wc -l
    155
csswg-drafts$ grep "user agent" */Overview.bs  | wc -l
    588
csswg-drafts$ grep "[U|u]ser agent" */Overview.bs  | wc -l
    686

(The last one is a crude attempt to capture the all lowercase variant including when it's at the start of a sentence, and capitalized for that reason.)

[frivoal]

A search an replace to capitalized is easier to perform though. And it is a special term, so having it capitalized does seem more appropriate, even if it is currently more rare. Anyway, Agenda+ to see if there's any appetite on unifying to one or the other.

[tabatkins]

Seems fine to unify. The W3C style guide mandantes lowercase, tho https://w3c.github.io/manual-of-style/#Terms

[css-meeting-bot]

The CSS Working Group just discussed Capitalization: "User Agent" or "user agent", and agreed to the following:

• RESOLVED: Match the style guide of lowercase for "user agent"

The full IRC log of that discussion

<Rossen_> Topic: Capitalization: "User Agent" or "user agent"
<Rossen_> github: https://github.com//issues/5200
<hober> q+
<dlibby_> florian: writing some spec text and wanted consistency, but we're completely inconsistent everywhere. using fully lowercase a bit more often
<dlibby_> florian: hard to do this in an automated fashion. uppercase can be done unconditionally. maybe we don't care
<dlibby_> hober: i don't actually care, can't pretend. w3c style guide says lowercase so lets follow that
<dlibby_> hober: should update the guide or follow
<chris> regex FTW
<dlibby_> florian: hard to do in practice and hard to enforce. you might automate replacement by being sentence aware
<dlibby_> fremy: not sure i follow, maybe we can put up a warning, think its doable
<dlibby_> florian: yes sounds doable
<dlibby_> Rossen_: do we care enough to resolve one way or another
<dlibby_> TabAtkins: I volunteer florian to implement the lowercasing
<chris> I'm fairly sure zero interop bugs are caused by this
<fremy> s/not sure i follow/user agent at the start of a sentence would be User agent not User Agent, so User Agent is detectably wrong/
<dlibby_> RESOLVED: Match the style guide of lowercase for "user agent"

[frivoal]

Fixed by 32d2651
Run this command once in a while to fix automatically fixable instances and to be informed of those that need manual handling:
bin/ua-capitalization.sh */Overview.bs