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Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:47:12 -0500 (EST)

D. E. Evans writes [quoting me]:
> 
>    No.  From the HTML 4.01 spec:
> 
>       Element names are written in uppercase letters (e.g., BODY).
>       Attribute names are written in lowercase letters (e.g., lang,
>       onsubmit).  Recall that in HTML, element and attribute names are
>       case-insensitive; the convention is meant to encourage
>       readability.
> 
> Isn't that what I said (s/entities/elements/)?  grohtml outputs
> elements/tags as lowercase, not uppercase as required by the HTML
> recommendations.

Read it again -- the spec itself uses upper- and lowercase for
readability, but HTML is case insensitive so <BOLD>, <bold>, <Bold>, and
<bOlD> are all equally valid.

-Larry Jones

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character. -- Calvin




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