From: Mark Davis ☕ (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Wed Mar 02 2011 - 14:13:36 CST
I have a typo in the following. Should have written:
l’histoire du Québec => L’histoire du Québec
Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:01, Mark Davis ☕ <mark@macchiato.com> wrote:
> I agree with Asmus that probably the best choice for CSS in lieu of
> language-specific information would be a "sentence-case", which modifies the
> case of the 'first' character of the first word, but leaves the rest of the
> word and the rest of text alone. What amounts to the 'first character of the
> first word' needs a bit more discussion.
>
> the Dodgers lose => the Dodgers lose
> 49ers win // leave alone
> diSilva in finals => DiSilva in finals // not Disilva
> l’histoire du Québec => l’histoire du Québec
>
> Mark
>
> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 16:51, Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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