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>Can someone please provide Web resources for questions that may come up
>regarding hyphenation and things of that sort? In the meantime, I'm
>under the assumption that the following words should be hyphenated. Is
>that correct?
>
>browser based
>web based
The normal rule in English is that a compound adjective--that is, an
adjective formed of two or more words--is hyphenated. So yes,
browser-based and web-based. Sometimes, though, you might want to relax
this rule, particular in document titles, where the hyphen might seem ugly.
>And, once and for all, I'd like to clarify whether the word Internet is
>a proper noun and, thus, capitalized.
An internet is a group of connected networks. The Internet is the famous,
enormous one through which we are now communicating.
