RE: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-10-08 Thread Erickson, Kevin (DOE)
Hello All, This looks like a really good cause. Please sign the petition to reopen the Accessibility Institute at the University of Texas created by the late John Slatin http://www.molly.com/2008/04/07/the-john-slatin-fund-accessibility-proj ect/ and colleagues here:

OT: RE: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-09-29 Thread Chris Vickery
: RE: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names As a fellow Uni student, I would do it in lower case with plenty of references to back my decision up. As long as you have references, you shouldn't lose marks. Check it out with your lecturer if in doubt though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-27 Thread David Dorward
Tim Offenstein wrote: I disagreed (because it makes the source hard to read) but he said you need to so that you can conform to HTML 4.01. I think this a case of someone reading far to deep into the specs. I didn't really want to argue with him because he assumes I know nothing. I do know

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-27 Thread David Storey
. From: James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:38:39 +0100 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names I am at university at the moment, and they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because otherwise I

[WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread James Jeffery
I am at university at the moment, and they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because otherwise I will lose a mark. I disagreed (because it makes the source hard to read) but he said you need to so that you can conform to HTML 4.01. I think

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Svip
2008/9/26 James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am at university at the moment, and they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because otherwise I will lose a mark. I disagreed (because it makes the source hard to read) but he said you need to so

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hi James, they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because otherwise I will lose a mark. That's a shame they're enforcing that. In HTML 4.01 either upper or lowercase is acceptable, but uppercase usage isn't forward-compatible into more

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Luke Hoggett
Write you markup in lowercase then parse it with a regex into uppercase before you hand it in. Really the uppercase is fine just bad style especially if you're moving on to XHTML. On 26/09/2008, at 21:38, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am at university at the moment, and

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Tony McNulty
-Original Message- From: James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:38:39 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names I am at university at the moment, and they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Todd Budnikas
, attributes *names* (ie. WIDTH) are case-insensitive but attribute values may be case-sensitive. From: James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:38:39 +0100 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names I am at university at the moment, and they said to use

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Anthony
. From: James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:38:39 +0100 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names I am at university at the moment, and they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because otherwise I

Re: [WSG] Uppercase Tag Names

2008-09-26 Thread Tim Offenstein
I am at university at the moment, and they said to use uppercase text for tag names and lowercase for attributes. I have to do it because otherwise I will lose a mark. I disagreed (because it makes the source hard to read) but he said you need to so that you can conform to HTML 4.01. I