On May 17, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpra...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: >> >> On May 17, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpra...@chromium.org> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I find either all-lowercase or all-caps to be much harder to read than >>>> capitalized words. They look like a blob of letters to me. >>> >>> We might have to agree to disagree here, then, but that's fine. >>> >>> If there was a clear consensus that one style or another is better, we >>> should go with that. >> >> Which you like better esthetically may be a matter of taste. But it's an >> objective, scientifically established fact that all-caps text is harder to >> read than lowercase or mixed case, and reduces reading speed: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps#Readability >> http://uxmovement.com/content/all-caps-hard-for-users-to-read/ >> > > Ooo! Citation fight! > > http://www.whatmakesthemclick.net/2009/12/23/100-things-you-should-know-about-people-19-its-a-myth-that-all-capital-letters-are-inherently-harder-to-read/ > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ctfonts/wordrecognition.aspx Your citations do not contradict mine. They dispute the mechanism that makes people read all-caps text slower, not the fact that it happens. Even if it's true that in theory people could be trained to read all-caps text just as quickly, I think it is unwise to make text files that require this uncommon skill. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
