- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@macvirus.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:05:40 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
I prefer lowercase. Apparently one cannot paraphrase the typographer Eric
Gill too often: "Legibility is what you are accustomed to." I changed my
site from upper- to lowercase HTML early last year, a decision based in
part on faint hopes:
"...Case of HTML tags can effect compression. Compression is
significantly worse (.35 rather than .27) if mixed case
HTML tags are used. The best compression was found if all
HTML tags were uniformly lower case, (since the compression
dictionary can reuse what are common English words)...." [1]
[This NOTE is not endorsed by anyone.]
[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/Pipeline.html
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Susan Lesch <mailto:lesch@macvirus.com>
Mac Virus <http://www.macvirus.com/>
Received on Friday, 26 February 1999 00:20:49 UTC