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Subject:Re: Capitalization of Web From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 4 Jun 1997 12:52:00 -0500
Dave Meek wrote:
>
> At 01:05 PM 6/3/97 -0700, Jean LaBella wrote:
> >In which of the following cases do you captialize references to the w/Web?
> >
> >1. w/Web client
> >2. w/Web browser
> >
>
> I've seen the "w/" construction used only as an abbreviation for "with."
> For me, both of your references read as "with Web client" and "with Web
> browser." I've never seen "w/Web" to mean "World Wide Web."
I think the original poster used w/W to indicate a choice between lower-
or upper-case W. In other words, "should I use web client or Web
client?"
To muddy the waters a bit more, I've also seen the word in all caps:
WEB.
Steve
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