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That makes sense. However, I argue that the NOAA could serve their warnings on the web in all lowercase for the sake of readability. Then again, that could be
by tricolon 13y ago
That makes sense.
However, I argue that the NOAA could serve their warnings on the web in all lowercase for the sake of readability. Then again, that could be a quick hack for someone.
- recuter 13y ago* { text-transform: lowercase; } If it bothers you so much. :)
- loungin 13y agoQuick hack, maybe. But someone getting the time to do so is another issue. And these are old systems, you want them to do the work so you can read a tsunami warning that happens how often?
- frankydp 13y agoThey deliver the information on a number of formatted pages. This is simply the source document.
- runjake 13y agoIt's more readable in all caps, which is why they and the military do it this way. If it were all lowercase thing like Is and ls and 1s would get confused.
- tomkarlo 13y agoNOAA / NWS advisories tend to have a lot of proper names. It looks really wacky if you just lower-case them (and it's non-trivial to convert them to proper capitalization automatically.) (I tried to do this back in about 1999. I don't think it's gotten much easier, although having geo APIs might help somewhat.) Also, apparently there's some international standards around this kind of info that require it to be upper case: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/blame-united-nations-all-caps-weather-service-bulletins http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/blame-united-n...