- From: Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:02:26 -0700
- To: Jens Meiert <jens.meiert@erde3.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
I believe that we are better off doing as what the current specification gives in this regards. capitalize - Puts the first character of each word in uppercase; other characters are unaffected A stylesheet would have to be verified against every usage if the proposal is used ([lowercase || capitalize]) The following are headlines from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/default.stm. "Poland debate aired on UK radio" -> "Poland Debate Aired On Uk Radio" "US conciliatory over missile plan" -> "Us Conciliatory Over Missile Plan" "Barclays drops ABN Amro offer" -> Barclays Drops Abn Ambro Offer" I can think of places where there are advantages to the proposal, I believe there are too many common uses of capitalized text that would be converted incorrectly. Paul -----Original Message----- From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jens Meiert Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 1:28 AM To: www-style@w3.org Subject: Proposal: "text-transform" property revision Dear Working Group, I may suggest again what I proposed almost three years ago [1], to slightly modify the "text-transform" property [2] (or its allowed value combinations, respectively): uppercase | [lowercase || capitalize] | none | inherit The above combination just intends to allow text-transform: lowercase capitalize as well, a combination that enables grammar compliant "styling" of words so that they become, sure, lowercase but also capitalized. Thus, authors could e.g. (almost) "correct" the formatting of English headings, and it would surely benefit many other languages as well. Best regards, Jens. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Feb/0507.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#caps-prop -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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