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I tend to prefer lowercase since it reduces the number of confusable characters, especially in handwriting (8/B, 0/D, 4/A), but I can understand that numbers mi
by XaspR8d 7y ago
I tend to prefer lowercase since it reduces the number of confusable characters, especially in handwriting (8/B, 0/D, 4/A), but I can understand that numbers might typographically or semantically feel uppercase, so lowercase A-F creates a MIxEd cASe looK.
Is uppercase the older tradition? I'm ~30yo and I've been seeing both for as long as I remember.
- reaperducer 7y agoIn my experience, it was always upper case until around the time CSS was introduced. The article pictured has it in upper case and it's from 1968.
- Izkata 7y agoHTML was as well, before CSS became commonplace. I still reflexively do it on occasion when writing a root page (html/head/title/body tags).
- kps 7y agoMost hardware was upper-case-only until the '60s — being descended from upper-case-only accounting cards and/or teleprinters.