I have found that Netscape 6 does not care if I use upper or lower or mixed
case tags. Of course if any tag is in the wrong spot then netscape 6 craps
out while IE goes along and displays just fine.
Shawn
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From: "Chuck Gartland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FreeTrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: RE: [FreeTrade] Formating customer email receipts
> > I guess it's mostly just a style thing, though I remember some
discussion
> > about lowercase tags being more compatible with xhtml (not that I know
why
> > being xhtml compatible would be important).
>
> Lowercase is not just more compatible with xhtml but is required by xhtml.
> The reason xhtml is important is that it is (a) the set of xml dtds for
html
> and (b) the next version of html (effectively html 5). New browser
> development will focus more and more on xml and not html.
Netscape6/Mozilla
> is a good example of this. Html is fault tolerant and does not care about
> case and several html tags are being deprecated. Xhtml is strict and
> requires lowercase for html (xml allows uppercase in tags but is case
> sensitive... ie <IMG> is not <Img> and neither is considered the html tag
> <img>) and is the emerging standard. Common sense and good design
practice
> would encourage the use of xhtml (or xhtml friendly html) in all new code.
>
> So if you like uppercase and do not plan on reusing the code you write
today
> in the future and like seeing new browsers (such as N6) mangle your site,
go
> ahead and use uppercase.
>
> Chuck
>
>
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