On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:51:34PM -0700, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > I've been using tidy, from the w3c, for a while now, to do > > pretty-reformatting of HTML documents. One of the things that it does is > > lower-case HTML tags. I was wondering, in light of comments made a week > > or two ago, whether it would be worthwhile to do this with files in the > > docs as I a working with them? > > > > The downside is that it will create a diff in which every line in the > > file changes (in most cases), and I did not want to start submitting > > enormous diffs, without running this past folks first. > > A similar question just threatened to start a flamewar on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ;-) > > My opinion is that it is not a big deal either way. (It is not like > source code where you potentially mess up everyone's patches.) But > I prefer not to unnecessarily reformat. The only time I do reformat is > when the existing format makes the doc very hard to work with. > > In other words, if it makes it significantly easier for you to work > with, then go ahead and reformat. But don't reformat just for the > sake of consistency. (I don't care about consistency here because > it is invisible to the end user.)
As you'll know, I spent a little time downgrading case on some of the 1.3 tree -- personally, I believe in consistency, but for the doco people (I agree with Joshua above re the user). After consulting a few fellow web developers, the trend/standard as it were is lowercase HTML tags -- I read somewhere (probably w3c) that lowercase tends to compress better as well. As for the diff lines -- this is also true, but it will only happen once per patched file. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Lingohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
