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Hal Shubin <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:35:26 -0400
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Standards and Common Use Seem to Indicate That Book Title 
Capitalization is the Way to Go. It Bugs the Heck Out of Me. Who Can 
Read This? Whether it's a Label For a Radio Button or a Header on a 
Web Page I Think it's Wrong.

But I seem to be in the minority. I prefer sentence capitalization, like this.

Maybe part of my problem is that people get carried away and use book 
title capitalization too much. I dunno, what do you think?

Have you seen any evidence that one is better? I prefer to write 
online copy the way we write on paper, and the way the people read. 
Or should we go with the standards (see 
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mobilesdk5/html/mob5concapitalization.asp>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mobilesdk5/html/mob5concapitalization.asp) 
and make people Read Everything Like it's the Title of a Book.

Comments to Me and I'll summarize; Discussion to the List.

thanks                          -- hs

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Hal Shubin, Interaction Design, Inc.
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