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Re: table.el html tag case |
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Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:30:52 -0800 |
Up spake Tak Ota:
>> Currently (version 22.1), table.el produces uppercase HTML tags.
>> Is there a compelling reason for this?
>
> Even the latest HTML 4.0 (at http://www.w3.org) is specified using
> uppercase tags.
Huh. I hadn't noticed. All the HTML I've seen that's been written
since the 90's has been lowercase.
> But as you point out XHTML does use lowercase for tags and the case is
> significant. I wonder if we should introduce another mode XHTML in
> addition to the existing HTML. What do you think?
Well ordinary HTML4 is case-insensitive, so simply lowercasing the tags
would make it valid HTML4 *and* XHTML, right?
If so, having a separate XHTML mode seems like overkill to me.
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-trent
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks
of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin
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