summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be>2014-12-11 21:50:35 +0100
committerBen Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>2014-12-11 15:50:16 +0100
commit870af9ec0395c00250f47dffe0d0f199402a0c40 (patch)
tree987e2c1e497880d3e663bdfc205a0c7569e9559a /README.md
parent6014f5c6c5e2bc06a871b6753c820a1a6d09dbf0 (diff)
downloadnodejs-870af9ec0395c00250f47dffe0d0f199402a0c40.tar.gz
nodejs-870af9ec0395c00250f47dffe0d0f199402a0c40.tar.bz2
nodejs-870af9ec0395c00250f47dffe0d0f199402a0c40.zip
docs: clarify that 'io.js' is the correct name
Refs #118. PR-URL: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/151 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README.md')
-rw-r--r--README.md7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 70970aaae..abc8adf85 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ io.js contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an
We intend to land, with increasing regularity, releases which are
compatible with the npm ecosystem that has been built to date for node.js.
+### Is it io.js or IO.js or iojs or IOjs or iOjS?
+
+The official name is **io.js**, which should never be capitalized,
+especially not at the start of a sentence, unless it is being
+displayed in a location that is customarily all-caps (such as
+the title of man pages.)
+
### To build:
Prerequisites (Unix only):