- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:23:18 -0500 (EST)
- To: Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org, Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
I would recommend that. (It is what Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines uses, because that's what the HTML spec says the code element is for. Charles McCN On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harvey Bingham" <hbingham@acm.org> To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 8:44 PM Subject: ERT comments > 1. a To Do > > Clean up usage of capitalization and <strong> on HTML elements and > > attributes. Use as WCAG does: elements are capitalized, no emphasis (e.g., > > IMG), attributes are lower-case and in quotes (e.g., "alt" or "longdesc"). > > That quoting of attribute names seems awkward, since in XML the attribute > and its value must be in quotes. So do we have to use in examples > <IMG ... "alt='shorttitle'"> > > Incidentally, XHTML has changed to make element names lower-case, as XML > is case-sensitive for element and attribute names. > But HTML 401 hasn't. Should the 'code' element be used for this, e.g. <code>img</code> and <code>hreflang</code>? -- Karl Ove Hufthammer -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Postal: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia
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