> I would recommend lowercasing CF tags. This will make it consistent >with >XHTML. > For more information, look here <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#diffs> > I also (personally) think that all lowercase words are easier to read >than words in all uppercase.
While I agree that all lower case words are easier on the eyes that all upper case, I've really never understood people who advocate your first argument. CF is server-side code and does not get sent back to the browser (as I know you know). So you gain nothing by trying to follow the XHTML standards with your CF code. HTML tags I can see because it does have an effect on established public compliance standards. But to compare them is apples and oranges, in my opinion, since CF code is never returned to the browser. As a side note, I think you might run into the problem with custom tags by putting a trailing slash at the end of the call where the tag gets run twice. I could be wrong, but I thought I remember seeing that happen before. For example: <cf_mytag attribute1="value"1 /> Personally, this whole discussion boils down to personal preference...period. As I said, I personally think that writing my tags in all lower case is easier on my eyes, so that's how I do it. I also have SQL rules where I capitalize keywords, lower case columns and tables, and put each column in my statement on its own row. But that's just my preference because it's easier to read my code and know what's going on. I'm not going to mandate that somebody write their CF code the same way. That's kind of ridiculous. There are a lot of other more important standards that should be implemented within a development team before I even *think* of casing. Just my $.02. Regards, Dave. ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
