- From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:55:10 +0100 (BST)
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- cc: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Terje Bless wrote: > On 27.07.01 at 13:26, Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk> wrote: > > >Since xhtml insists on all lowercase, can you get them to call it > >xhtml 2.0 instead? > > Well... > > «XHTML» is properly an acronym so there /is/ some justification... :-) sorry, no. it's not a pronounceable word. please look up 'acronym' and 'abbreviation' in an English dictionary. All the decent dictionaries think that it has to become a word by backformation (e.g. scuba, laser, radar) to qualify as an acronym. following your abbreviation argument, td and th should be written TD and TH; xhtml should have picked UPPER CASE. L. <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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