Re: table.el downcase HTML tags

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 31 May 2006, address@hidden wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 30 May 2006, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> Old, badly written parsers may look for "TABLE" and break with
>> "table".  
>
> This is not a reason for us to output badly written HTML...

I'm sure it's not badly written, in fact (as pointed out) it's "more"
valid to output uppercase tags with HTML 4.0 and earlier.

I simply offered an option to preserve the old behavior, which also
(IMHO) would simplify the code.

>> Generally, why break old behavior if it can be left in as an
>> option?
>
> table.el is new in emacs 22.x, so we still are free to change it,
> without considering what those changes might break.
>
> If Tak thinks this change is good, he's the one to judge it.

Sure.

Ted