- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:39:28 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 13:52, Bert Bos wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008 10:20, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Change "white space" to "whitespace" throughout. > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site:w3.org+inurl:TR/CSS21+%22white% > >20 space%22 shows that at least > > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html is affected. (Maybe that's > > the only page.) > > > > (For what it's worth, both "white space" and "whitespace" are > > correct, but the latter is used in CSS 2.0 and is used more > > frequently in CSS 2.1.) > > On the other hand, the property is called 'white-space', so maybe > it's more consistent to use "white space"... > > But it's true that "whitespace" occurs more often: 41 times against > 10. > > I assume this is editorial and as I'm the editor, I've gone ahead and > done it: changed 10 occurrences of "white space" and one occurrence > of "white-space" (not referring to the property) to "whitespace". W3C's manual of style[1] actually recommends "white space" in two words, so I've now changed all occurrences to that. [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#Terms Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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