Re: event handler name motivation

Sebastian Zartner <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:03:17 +0100

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On 26 January 2015 at 03:29, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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...
>

Is there at least some agreement for a scheme for future event names now?
If so, would it make sense to introduce aliases to be able to change
existing event names to follow that scheme?

Sebastian