Just for funsies I looked this up - In the interests of honesty I should point out that apparently it was Mozilla who named this `XMLHttpRequest` thing. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/157375/why-does-xmlhttprequest-not-seem-to-follow-a-naming-convention
On 11 July 2017 at 13:07, Alexander Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Occasionally this comes up when deciding on a spelling for something. > There are numerous examples in ECMAScript and other Web standards that seem > to defy the most uniform convention: > > * `JSON` vs. `Json` > * `toJSON` vs. `toJson` > * `XMLHttpRequest` vs. `XmlHttpRequest` > * `DOMElement` vs. `DomElement` > > While it looks initially strange to specifically drop the capital letters > on an initialisms like XML, the rule is simple in that it has an obvious > machine decoding - a capital letter starts a new word. Thus, translations > of identifiers to other case conventions are automatic (so long as numbers > never appear at the start of a word). This helps a lot when e.g. generating > bindings for IDLs to different languages, or in general interfacing > different systems that really, really want to use their own naming > conventions. > > * mixed case: `myTlaIdentifierHere` > * pascal case: `MyTlaIdentifierHere` > * underscore case: `my_tla_identifier_here` > * uppercase: `MY_TLA_IDENTIFIER_HERE` > * kebab case: `my-tla-identifier-here` > * spaces case: `my tla identifier here` > > --- > > My question is whether there is an existing community recommendation > anywhere for naming ECMAScript identifiers. Clearly, when Microsoft devised > the name `XMLHttpRequest`, someone was having a difficult time figuring out > how to spell adjacent initialisms in PascalCase. > > If there is no recommendation, perhaps there should be? Is there any scope > for non-normative sections of information like this in the ECMAScript spec? > > Thanks > > Alex >
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