Posted by Ben Gun on 02/13/07 21:22

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:10:30 -0600, Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com>
wrote:

>Ben Gun wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:04:11 +0000, Toby A Inkster
>> <usenet200702@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>why not just modify it to this:
>>> <div style="font-variant:small-caps">The Bengal Tiger</div>
>>
>> Because I would like it uppercase in the HTML
>
>Semantically, that's incorrect. All caps usually signifies acronyms,
>which this most definitely is not. The text should be normal title case
>in the HTML. You can style it however you like with CSS.

I know. Eventually I will do that.

Since we're on the point, what do small caps signify? Why would
anybody use small caps? In my book it is proper names, but the text is
not consistent. The reason I am asking is, what would be the right why
to represent this in plain vanilla ASCII?

Cheers, Ben

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