Re: event handler name motivation

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:29:25 -0500
• To: www-dom@w3.org
• Message-ID: <54C5A685.80600@mit.edu>

On 1/25/15 7:56 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> Does anyone know/remember what the motivation was for using event handler function names like onreadystatechange (all lowercase) rather than onReadyStateChange?

For this particular one, and for Firefox, the motivation was that this 
was what IE implemented by 2001.  See discussion in 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96459

So we'd need to find someone involved in Trident back then...

-Boris

Received on Monday, 26 January 2015 02:29:56 UTC