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Re: Lowercase compresses better?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Fri Sep 29 18:14:59 2000
Message-Id: <200009292004.PAA09358@gungnir.fnal.gov>
To: rsalz@CaveoSystems.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:29:50 EDT.
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:04:13 -0500
> HTML tags should be lowercase wherever possible. In other
> words, '<a href="foo.html">Link</a>' is preferred over
> '<A HREF="foo.html">Link</A>'. This is because lowercase
> letters result in more efficient space savings when documents
> are compressed.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how this could be true.
If the page is basically text, then most of the alphabetic characters
are probably lowercase, so there's a better chance of finding a
patched string in the compression state. Right?
What boggles me is that anyone would give a flying expletive.
Matt Crawford
