On 03 Oct 2011, at 00:59 , John Delacour wrote:

> 
> JD: > Do you write your validated code in HTML 4.01 (1999) or HTML5? If not 
> then they're illegal
> 
> Lukreme: > Not correct. Uppercase tags are only illegal in XHTML, and there 
> maybe only in 1.0.
> 
> JD: > Please Sir, what comes between HTML 4.01 and HTML5 that allows upper 
> case tags?
> 
> Charlie Garrison: > It's part of the HTML5 spec: ....
> 
> Come come, enough of this nonsense!  It's quite clear both of you have a 
> problem with logic. To repeat the meaning of my statement -- unless the code 
> is in 4.01 or HTML5, upper case tags will result in invalid HTML.

Um, I don’t think any version of HTML has ever required case-sensitive tags. 
Only XHTML had that requirement. 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).


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