- From: Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 06:47:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Greetings, First, let me congratulate you for this effort in normalizing the styling and rendition of HTML documents. I have wanted something like this for a _long_ time. However, I must say thta 2 aspects of the current proposition seem completely against established practices, which worries me: 1) XHTML uses lower-case for tags and attributes IMHO, this goes against _every_ previous attempt to produce clear, human-readable HTML source. UPPER-CASE is _much_ easier to read, as it clearly establishes a difference between URIs or plain text and ATTRIBUTES or TAGS. Just look at this paragraph; don't the UPPERCASE bits stand out? _That_ is why it's easier to edit or parse UPPERCASE content. My recommendation is to rewrite this into: "XHTML uses upper-case for tags and attributes" 2) add a / to empty tags, e.g. <br /> and <hr /> Here, this would break the explicit statement that such tags are never encapsulated. If it's already stated, why complicate it?! If it ain't broke, don't fix it... However, requiring _all_ attribute values to be quoted, plus the mandatory inclusion of closing tags (where it was previously made optional) are _very_ good ideas that will certainly clarify _many_ things and help bullet-proof HTML rendition on any browser. While the previous statements are strictly my own, they very much follow the current trend we have persued here, at Intellitel. Hopefully, my two reservations will be taken into account and the current recommendation rephrased accordingly... Yours, -- Martin-Eric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.com/~q-funk/M-E/ The Atari TT030 Homepage http://funkyware.atari.org/TT030/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Intellitel Communications www.intellitel.com +358 (5) 624 3283
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