Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-20 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:08 p -0700 10/03/2011, Fletcher Sandbeck didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:43 PM, blinde wrote: based on the discussions thus far: SHOULD i use all lowercase tags? does it really matter? if so, WHY does it matter? If you use compression on your web

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-05 Thread LuKreme
On 03 Oct 2011, at 19:43 , blinde wrote: based on the discussions thus far: SHOULD i use all lowercase tags? does it really matter? if so, WHY does it matter? The only reason, and it’s not much of a reason, to switch from upper case to lowercase tags is that if someone else sees the HTML

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-04 Thread Fletcher Sandbeck
On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:43 PM, blinde wrote: based on the discussions thus far: SHOULD i use all lowercase tags? does it really matter? if so, WHY does it matter? If you use compression on your web pages there evidentially can be some benefit to using all same case tags so that they can be

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-03 Thread LuKreme
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

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-03 Thread Watts Martin
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

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-03 Thread blinde
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

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-02 Thread LuKreme
On Sep 29, 2011, at 13:19, John Delacour johndelac...@gmail.com wrote: If Barebones were ever to make it possible to have upper case tags inserted with their markup utilities, I'd suspect Rich had already been sedated. Do you write your validated code in HTML 4.01 (1999) or HTML5? If not

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-01 Thread David Miers
I was under the impression that html 5 is only basically suggesting because the doc type isn't even formally written in stone at this time. I see that the W3C does have a validation now for html 5, although it's marked experimental. As far as I know bbedit is the only tool I have that does

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-30 Thread blinde
john ok, so now I'm confused. if tags are supposed to be lower case, why does bbedit offer a palette button to make tags upper case? also, the HTML spec shows attributes as lower case, but all of their examples have upper case tags I don't mind learning something new... no matter how much it

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-30 Thread Brian Frick
Hi Bruce, When I first started coding HTML in 1992, tags were uppercase. In fact, you can read more here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_elements.asp As of HTML 4 (1999), the W3C (the group that dictates HTML standards) recommended lowercase tags; HTML5 and XHTML require lowercase tags to

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-30 Thread blinde
brian thank you. as usual, I am late to the game and dragged kicking and screaming. 8-) although I find uppercase tags easier to parse in long docs I have heard and will obey thanks for the info bruce On Sep 30, 5:36 am, Brian Frick brianfr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bruce, When I first

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-30 Thread Doug McNutt
At 06:46 -0700 9/30/11, blinde wrote: brian thank you. as usual, I am late to the game and dragged kicking and screaming. 8-) although I find uppercase tags easier to parse in long docs I have heard and will obey And those of us who grew up with all capitals using six bit bytes and Hollerith

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-30 Thread Kerri Hicks
On Sep 30, 8:36 am, Brian Frick brianfr...@gmail.com wrote: As of HTML 4 (1999), the W3C (the group that dictates HTML standards) recommended lowercase tags; HTML5 and XHTML require lowercase tags to validate. There's nothing stopping you from using uppercase tags in HTML, but if

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-30 Thread Brian Frick
You're right, HTML5 allows for AnYtHiNg. I had forgotten about that, even though I remember reading it in the rules... Thanks, Kerri! -- Brian On Sep 30, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Kerri Hicks wrote: On Sep 30, 8:36 am, Brian Frick brianfr...@gmail.com wrote: As of HTML 4 (1999), the W3C (the

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-09-29 Thread John Delacour
At 11:40 -0700 29/9/11, blinde wrote: actually, i use the utilities palette... but i'm looking for a setting so i don't have to do this manually... i would always get upper case tags... anyone else? If Barebones were ever to make it possible to have upper case tags inserted with their