event handler name motivation

Mark Volkmann <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:56:00 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dom.general
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Does anyone know/remember what the motivation was for using event handler function names like onreadystatechange (all lowercase) rather than onReadyStateChange? I can't think of the another API that does that. They seem harder to read when all lowercase. Of course there's no way to change it now.

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.