Re: new draft of recording


On 12 juin 2013, at 23:01, Jim Barnett wrote:

> If I go to this link http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-dom-20121206/#exception-domexception I see Exceptions defined in all caps,

The "all caps" format is used by convention for naming the constants properties

You can see such constants on many W3C API, in which they are associated to numeric values:

- DOM Core:
        - level 3
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-17189187 (DOM Exception)
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-1950641247 (Node)
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#TypeInfo

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#UserDataHandler

        - DOM4
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#node
                        -> http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-nodetype

                        -> http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-node-comparedocumentposition

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#range

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#nodeiterator

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#nodefilter

- DOM Events:
        - level 2
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-interface

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-EventException

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-MutationEvent

        - level 3
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-Event

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-WheelEvent

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-KeyboardEvent

                - http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#events-MutationEvent

        - DOM4
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#event

- XMLHttpRequest:
        - level 1
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#states

        - level 2
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/#states

- Web Sockets:
        - http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/#websocket

- Event Source:
        - http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-eventsource-20121211/#eventsource

- File API
        - http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/#dfn-filereader

- Navigation Timing:
        - http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-navigation-timing-20121217/#performancenavigation

- geolocation API
        - v1
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/#position_error_interface

        - v2
                - http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API-v2/#position_error_interface





> but if I click on the name of any specific exception, I see them defined in CamelCase.

The upperCamelCase is used for the associated "values" of the "name" property



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Received on Monday, 24 June 2013 12:10:30 UTC