- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:31:21 -0400
- To: "James Elmore" <James.Elmore@cox.net>
- Cc: CSS <www-style@w3.org>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
2008/10/21 James Elmore <James.Elmore@cox.net>: > > In English, 'capitalize' may mean one of several things. The most common > usage is to make something a title, which has all sorts of complex rules > about which words should have initial capitals and which ones should not. > For the computer world, a second common usage is to make (what I have heard > called 'AOL-SPEAK' ;-) ALL TEXT IN CAPS. Somewhere, further down the list is > Initial Capitals, where ALL of the first letters are capitals I'm pretty sure the second usage was the common usage (and I still expect it to be the meaning unless the context indicates otherwise). "Uppercase" and "lowercase" used to be typographic jargon, and they became common only because of computer usage. -- cheers, -ambrose The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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