Re: ERT comments

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
  

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