- From: Robert Koberg <rob@koberg.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 05:54:26 -0800
- To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- CC: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>, www-html@w3.org
hi, I just heard a good explantion. The person said the decision was made to go with lowercase because it compresses more. He said that the savings was about 20% over uppercase. Was this the reason? best, -Rob Steven Pemberton wrote: >>I dream that there were major battles in the XHTML group as they hashed >>out whether to use lower or upper case tags. Lives were lost, villages >>destroyed, reputations ruined, etc. Ok, it probably wasn't that bad and >>I wasn't there so I wouldn't know. >> > >Actually, I was also expecting a major battle when this issue came up in the >group. In fact we were able to make the decision without even raising our >voices. > >Steven Pemberton >Chair, W3C HTML Working Group >
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