Re: event handler name motivation
Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:29:25 -0500
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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