- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:51:59 +0900
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- CC: "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Hello John, you say > Five years ago, *sigh*... but this stuff goes back a long, long way. If you have member access, please check out https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-html-wg/1997AprJun/0177.html Now that's a long time ago :-). Regards, Martin. On 2013/01/16 18:36, John Daggett wrote: > > On the topic of case sensitivity, this post by Martin Duerst contains > points that are just a relevant now as they were then: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Nov/0188.html > > A small snippet that I think is most appropriate to this discussion: > > Two little remarks here: > > - There are not too many non-Latin scripts that have > cases. These are usually simpler than Latin itself, > because they don't have issues such as the Turkish/Azery > I/i. So this is a non-ASCII, but very much Latin script, > issue. > > - Case insensitivity is a user convenience mostly in cases > where case conventions are not well established, and > where users are often guessing identifiers, or have to > remember them for repeated use. The examples we are > really dealing with, such as counter names, are very > local, and aren't used on a regular basis by plain end > users. For such cases, the 'convenience' issue is of > much lower importance. > > Five years ago, *sigh*... > > Cheers, > > John Daggett > >
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