I don't see why you bother arguing with her. Let her code any way she wants
to. If she doesn't want to write "well-formed" code, then that's her own
business.

If you are implying that she is telling people as a helpdesk employee that
they HAVE to code in uppercase, then ask her why, if the reference she cites
says IT DOESN'T MATTER why she is forcing people to do it her way.

I've personally been coding in lowercase -- and adding closing tags like
</p> and </li> for that matter -- forever. They still aren't REQUIRED for
any browser out there.

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Chuck Evans
Web Marketing Manager
Captura Software, Inc.
(425) 424-1155
chucke(at)captura.com
http://www.captura.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Reywob(at)aol.com [mailto:Reywob(at)aol.com]

I'm part of a team of volunteers providing support and tutorials at my ISP.

One of the members of the team believes that HTML should be coded with the 
tags in UPPERCASE.  She won't accept that it might be better to code in
lower 
case, as it isn't part of the HTML 4 standard.  She also believes that the 
XHTML spec is a load of rubbish, and sent this link 
(http://www.alistapart.com/stories/xhtml/index.html) to prove her point.

This is beginning to develop into a flame war.  Please can I have your 
opinions of the subject.  I have always coded lowercase, as I believe that
it 
is better for future compatibility (and also it looks neater).  Is this
true? 
 There must be some reason why lowercase is better, as most people use it 
these days, but I cannot think of the reason.  What is it?  What's a good 
argument for coding lowercase? 

Also, is the XHTML spec really useless/dead?  Look at the link above and 
you'll see why I'm asking.

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