SPUG: Vendor wants to Present

Mark Yocom myocom at microsoft.com
Wed Jan 23 19:55:41 CST 2002


The HTML comments seem to indicate that capitalized tags are also
produced by <drumroll>:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meryll Larkin [mailto:humbaba9 at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: Ben Reser
> Cc: spug-list at pm.org
> Subject: Re: SPUG: Vendor wants to Present
> 
> 
> 1/22/02
> 
> Hi Ben & All,
> 
> HTML tags all in upper case isn't necessarily bad -
> (sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it is) some people
> prefer lower case because it makes the pages more XML
> friendly.  
> 
> In this case, I just made a note of it because I know
> that HTML tags all in caps and bad indentation is
> characteristic of coding produced by old versions of
> Frontpage.
> 
> Meryll
> 
> --- Ben Reser <ben at reser.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:24:51PM -0800, Meryll
> > Larkin wrote:
> > > The HTML appears to have been generated by a (bad)
> > > HTML generator, possibly Frontpage, with tags all
> > in
> > > uppercase and bad indentation, bad boundaries on
> > their
> > > buttons, and extra unneeded tags
> > > (this is a good indicator of bad code - view
> > source on
> > > this page
> > > http://www.teamstudio.com and look at all the
> > </UL> at
> > > the bottom plus the double </HTML> tags).  Their
> > > navigation isn't particularly good (it's
> > confusing,
> > > and in some places non-intuitive - but that isn't
> > > coding, just architectural logic).
> > 
> > Just what does the tags being in all caps prove?  I
> > always use caps for
> > my tags.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ben Reser <ben at reser.org>
> > http://ben.reser.org
> > 
> > What difference does it make to the dead, the
> > orphans, and the homeless,
> > whether the mad destruction is wrought under the
> > name of totalitarianism
> > or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
> 
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