- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:54:10 +0200
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:39:33 +0200, Christoph P?per <christoph.paeper at crissov.de> wrote: > *Anne van Kesteren*: >> 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. Cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo espa?ol - je parle fran?ais - jeg l?rer norsk chaals at opera.com Try Opera 9 now! http://opera.com
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