- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:10:58 +0200 (EET)
- To: HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote: > I think this is a good point. It's not that essential in XHTML, which uses only lower case in tag names. You might read "l" as "I", but hardly as "i". > I've never quite understood why HTML always > wanted to shorten stuff so incredibly; HTML was souped up quickly and eclectically, and it has no consistent policy on this; <blockquote> isn't particularly short. But many tags are really short, cryptic, and pure-code-like - think about <a>, which means 'link' (or 'linkable location/element'). The real reason is probably that many of the original designers and developers thought about typing in the tags using a simple text editor. > why can't <l> be <line>? Because so many other tags are already cryptic. :-) Well, I guess the real reason is that in order to make authors use the new, more structured markup instead of <br> or <br />, the new markup must not look much more bulky than the old style. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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