Re: camelCase for event listeners

I'm in favor of camelCase for the same reasons. I think consistency is 
generally useful for reducing the learning curve as someone transitions 
between APIs, but in this case I really don't think it'll make a difference.

Gili

On 11/04/2014 9:23 AM, Robin Raymond wrote:
>
>
> While this is probable low priority "camel vs no camel for events", 
> it's better we pick something and stick to it before it's too late.
>
> I guess the pro-camel case argument is:
> - much easier for human readability
> - consistent with remainder of API
>
> and the anti-camel case for events augment is:
> - consistent with "legacy / existing" APIs
> - property vs event is a matter of prepending "on"
>
> I've personally always been more in favor of an API being consistent 
> with itself as the #1 goal. I've never much liked the all-lowercase 
> events but I knew it was consistent with other APIs when we started 
> drafting the API. The property vs event argument by just adding "on" 
> in my mind only has merit if converting might be done programmatically 
> vs by a human, as the human can know to follow the camel case rules 
> when they code if that is the convention.
>
> So do we buck the existing trend and put an end to difficulty in human 
> readability? I prefer readable code more than anything and I do not 
> mind long method names when it improves readability / 
> understandability. So I'd lean toward making everything camel case 
> despite it going somewhat against the existing grain.
>
> -Robin
>
>> Adam Bergkvist <mailto:adam.bergkvist@ericsson.com>
>> April 10, 2014 at 1:32 AM
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> It seems to be a convention among web APIs using DOM events to keep 
>> the event handler attribute names in all lower case. I agree that 
>> it's not the prettiest thing in the world. I guess one reason is an 
>> other convention to have event names, e.g. "canplay" (media element), 
>> in lower case and the attribute name is simply the result of 
>> prepending "on".
>>
>> BR
>> Adam
>>
>> cowwoc <mailto:cowwoc@bbs.darktech.org>
>> April 7, 2014 at 7:42 PM
>> Hi,
>>
>> In reading http://ortc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ortc.html I 
>> noticed that you use camelCase for all identifiers except event 
>> listeners, which use all-lowercase names. I personally find lowercase 
>> names harder to read, especially for longer names.
>>
>> Would you consider changing these to camelCase instead?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gili
>>