guys - can't we all get along? 8-)
so... i've been trying to use lowercase tags... struggling to use lowercase tags. bbedit does 'help' by offering them as the default, but it's not what i'm used to. based on the discussions thus far: SHOULD i use all lowercase tags? does it really matter? if so, WHY does it matter? i'm not adverse to learning new things... more the pain of learning new things! 8-) looking forward to your comments, thanks, bruce p.s.: yes, i'm an all lowercase poster and emailer... two sets of standards, as my mother would say. On Oct 3, 3:00 pm, Watts Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2011, at 14:12 , LuKreme wrote: > > > HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.x, 4.x and 5 all are case-insensitive, though it is > > possible that early specs required UPPER case tags (there certainly were a > > lot of upper case tags back in the 90’s). > > As far as I know the uppercasing of tags was a convention borrowed from SGML. > But you're absolutely right about the case-insensitivity. I still know more > than one person who writes their HTML using exclusively uppercase, as they > insist that it makes it easier to separate tags from text -- and refuse to > use editors more capable than Notepad or TextEdit. They complained mightily > about XHTML's requirement for lowercase-only tags and will be relieved that > HTML5 backtracks from that, but they're still not down with all this crazy > new-fangled CSS stuff. > > - Watts > > smime.p7s > 4KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
