On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:07:35 +0200, Nicholas Shanks
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On 5 Sep 2006, at 12:54, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
Instead of returning an uppercase six digit hex value I suggest
returning a lowercase value for compatibility with what UAs
(including IE) currently do
It may be the right decision on compatibility grounds, but other than
that lowercase hexadecimal digits (0-9, a-f) are almost always a bad
choice, because a, c and e have no ascenders like every hindu-arabic
decimal digit has and thus make the number harder to read. This
obviously does not apply to fonts with old-style numerals aka. text
figures, where 0, 1 and 2 have neither ascenders (like 6 and 8) nor
descenders (like 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9), but those are rather unlikely to
be used in a programming environment.
I believe this, but I suspect that the gain in compatibility is well
worth the minor loss in efficiency for people who are hand-coding.
I disagree, and always prefer uppercase hex digits to lowercase ones, it
makes the numbers easier to read IMO.
That is, I think, what Christopher said and I agreed with. I still think
that compatibility with deployed browsers should, in this case, trump that
usability gain.
cheers
Chaals
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