- From: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:37:39 +0200
- To: "John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca>
- cc: www-amaya-dev@w3.org
> I do not know the reasoning for making XHTML case
> sensitive. But it sure will cause problems. And it flies
> in the face of backwards compatibility and the history
> of all that has gone before. Even now only a small
> percentage code for html 4 correctly. Many could care
> less. And to add unnecessary restrictions and
> geek code for color is madness!!
The XHTML can be read by old HTML browsers but there is no guaranty that
a old HTML document can be read by a new XML browsers. Uppercase is one
reason that breaks the parsing of old HTML documents but the most
important cause is that many HTML documents are not well formed.
>
> John Russell, VE3LL@RAC.CA
> http://www.cgocable.net/~jrussel
> Mystery readers may want to click on DOROTHYL
>
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Irene.
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