From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2011 - 18:51:26 CST
On 3/1/2011 4:28 PM, Shawn Steele wrote:
>
> I didn’t mean you were an English teacher, but my mother was J
>
> I meant that I’ve seen “title casing” being used by computer
> applications for CamelCasing (then remove the spaces). I’m not
> suggesting that’s right, but it’s clearly a different use case than
> “Titles of Books on Amazon.com”.
>
For a CSS feature it needs to have some generic usability. The problem
is that "uppercasing the first letter of every word without exception"
does not have a strong use case - there are simply too few cases where
you can use it - for example, you can not use in styling English titles
or headings (nor in many other languages, there for other reasons, to
wit: they don't use "title case" conventions at all).
If you apply it to the first word only, you get sentence casing, which
does have a reasonably widespread use case, and 99.x% of all sentences
don't start with a word that needs exceptional "title" casing.
That, to me would seem to be the best use case you can squeeze of this.
A./
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