I love MacRumors and all the info and forums etc, but why do the subjects of each news item have every word capitalized?
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It's a thing (and somewhat traditional for newspapers)
en.wikipedia.org
It's just how we started. We've had some internal debate about it, but haven't changed it yet.
Title case - Wikipedia
It's just how we started. We've had some internal debate about it, but haven't changed it yet.
What Words Should Be Capitalized in a Headline?
It depends on who you’re writing for
Your example doesn’t even have every word capitalized. Only the right ones.
It doesn't have anything to do with grammar, just style.
I personally like title case, but at the end of the day, I think consistency is what's important. I'm less interested in a site's style decisions than I am in consistency, grammar, spelling, correct use of punctuation, that sort of thing. When things are done consistently and correctly within a given style, I focus on the content without being distracted by how it's presented.
Titles are capitalized. This is a proper stylistic convention. I think most would agree that doing it do otherwise would be incorrect.
I think halvsies is best:
Apple Asks Developers Whether They Would Attend In-person wwdc following two years of digital format
Having every word capitalized sets the heading apart and indicates very clearly that it is the title of an article. Why change that? What would be the purpose?
i know that the current fashion among many ppl these days seems to be no longer bothering with capital letters where they are needed and appropriate and that shortcuts in spelling and grammar seem to be the "in" thing as well, but that does not make these things correct, nor does it make them easier for the reader to quickly comprehend.
(Ouch, that made me cringe, not capitalizing the first word of that sentence just above and also deliberately shortcutting one word rather than simply spelling it out properly..... Call me "old-skool," and I'll freely admit and agree that, yep, guilty as charged!!)
i know that the current fashion among many ppl these days seems to be no longer bothering with capital letters where they are needed and appropriate and that shortcuts in spelling and grammar seem to be the "in" thing as well, but that does not make these things correct, nor does it make them easier for the reader to quickly comprehend.
(Ouch, that made me cringe, not capitalizing the first word of that sentence just above and also deliberately shortcutting one word rather than simply spelling it out properly..... Call me "old-skool," and I'll freely admit and agree that, yep, guilty as charged!!)
1) Doesn't the layout of the article - with the headline set in a red box, with a beige box below, then the rest of the article coming inside a white box outlined by that beige - lend much more weight to it being the title than each word being capitalised?
2) The first letter and any names would still be capitalised...
You would think so, yes, that the layout itself (at least on MR, which since a member here brought it up is the site under discussion) would suggest that whatever is written as the title/header is the descriptive name of the article following below, regardless of the use or non-use of capitalization, but sometimes it still takes more than that to grab people's attention these days, and if everything or most everything is in regular letters rather than caps, it is possible that some readers might not even notice that there is an article which could be of interest to them.....?
I'm really not following your point here... are you looking at this from the perspective of a front page browser (in which case, it makes no sense to me that someone would skip out an entire chunk of text because the headline wasn't written in Title Case) or a forum browser?
I don't want to start a whole new thread over this, but I have noticed thanks to @triptolemus screenshot putting it in the middle of my screen... "How Tos" should be written as "How-tos" since it is a noun. The headings of the individual articles are fine as "How to...".
And as to Eric Slivka - I did a quick search of "Chief" on Google Maps and couldn't find a significant location (city, town, even village) by that name. So where is he?