| From: | Andy Wanless |
| Date: | 7 Sep 2000 at 16:20:14 |
| Subject: | Re: Has anyone got Issue 12 yet ? |
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Gareth Griffiths wrote:
>
> And actually, apparently, HTML is case-sensitive, if the book I have here is
> to be believed. Elements are to be in CAPS, and attributes are to be in
> lowercase. Chances are that no validators give a toss about that though :-)
That could just be a common-ish convention that a lot of people use
(including the people that wrote the HTML specs). The values of certain
attributes are case-sensitve, and some aren't.
The big difference is with XHTML, which hopefully will replace HTML some
day. Being based on XML rather than SGML, it _is_ case-sensitive, and
elements need to be in lower case. (And anyone that doesn't understand
terms like "XML" and "SGML", don't ask. Just assume I know what I'm on
about and HTML will eventually be replaced by something which is
case-sensitive).
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