Re: XHTML and CASE-SENSITIVITY

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

> <QUESTION ID=1>
> But WHY was lower case chosen over upper case?
> </QUESTION>
...

The participants in the WG represent both corporate and independent
content developers, e.g. the WG includes participants from the
Hypertext Writers Guild. Arguments have been presented for upper and
for lower case, and the working group eventually reached a consensus
position on recommending lower case to W3C members for adoption for
use in the reformulation of HTML in XML. This was covered in the
public draft issued in early December, last year. The group is now
moving forward to tackle issues of modularisation and document
profiles, as detailed in the HTML Activity statement, see:

  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity.html

Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
phone: +44 122 578 2984 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile)
World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)

Received on Thursday, 25 February 1999 06:08:30 UTC