[uf-dev] Case-sensitivity

Dan Connolly connolly at w3.org
Wed Jan 18 15:09:38 PST 2006


On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Ryan King wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Dan Connolly wrote:
>>  -- http://www.microformats.org/wiki/hcard-issues
>
> I think the idea is to make a distinction between properties and 
> enumerated values. So, for example 'given-name' is lower-cased, while 
> stuff like ADR and TEL types are case insensitive.
>
> FWIW, I don't think we can get away with requiring enumerated values 
> to be lowercased. I, for one, would feel dirty having to do this:
>
>> <abbr class="type" title="home">Home</abbr>
>
> And I don't think I'd be the only one.


I can see the point, and I don't mind the change *too* much, though 
it's a bit of a pain to code up...

It just caught me off guard to have an issue that seemed so clearly 
RESOLVED re-opened and reversed.

I trust the hcard-issues page will show the history of the issue as it 
evolves. Or something.


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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/



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