On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In reading
> http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-09-27-001-01-OP-CY-LF
> I came across the following guideline for writing Apache documentation:
> HTML tags should be lowercase wherever possible. In other
> words, '<a href="foo.html">Link</a>' is preferred over
> '<A HREF="foo.html">Link</A>'. This is because lowercase
> letters result in more efficient space savings when documents
> are compressed.
That's rather silly.
HOWEVER - that being said, one of the requirements of XHTML 1.0 is that all
tags be all lowercase[1], so there is a valid reason to do lowercasing of
tags (if you don't want to re-do your html to make it xhtml 1.0 compliant).
Cheers,
--Dg
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.2
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