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Re: Encoding names in validator...

From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 04:51:57 +0200
To: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
cc: Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@ThinRope.net>
Message-ID: <a0106000f-1025-E361D946721111D7B5DF0030657B83E8@[193.157.66.23]>

Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@ThinRope.net> wrote:

>I was just wondering, why all encoding names are in lower case in the
>dropdown list

Convenience (aka. "lazyness", the principal virtue of the true programmer
;D). Since encoding names are case insensitive, and it makes it easier to
match the encoding name, we've left them as lower-case. At some point the
names will be properly cased.

Thanks for your feedback on this.

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