Premshree Pillai ([info]premshree) wrote,
@ 2005-05-27 18:15:00
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No Conventions? You Suck.

The Mozilla folks seem to have the following convention: any abbreviation that begins with an ‘X’ shall have all its letters capitalized. However, abbreviations beginning with any other letter shall have only the first letter capitalized. That’s how we have XMLHttpRequest, I must guess.

The Greasemonkey folks were kinda smart: they decided that conventional wisdom has it that everybody treats xmlhttp as one awesome word—and so they have GM_xmlhttpRequest, I must guess.

If my guesses are wrong, maybe people just don’t care.

My wisdom says XmlHttpRequest. Are you wise?


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[info]bluesmoon
2005-05-27 02:08 pm UTC (link)
XML and HTTP are both abbrs so need to be capitalised.

It should be XMLHTTPRequest, but shiftkeyitis prevails and xmlhttprequest would be a good choice.

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[info]premshree
2005-05-27 10:19 pm UTC (link)
XML and HTTP are both abbrs so need to be capitalised.
Not necessarily. We could have a convention that says everything—whether an abbreviation or whatever—has only the first letter capitalized (or something like that).

What I was getting at was the lack of any convention.

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[info]prasun
2005-05-27 03:25 pm UTC (link)
I would vote for xml_http_request regardless of whether xml
and http are abbreviations or not.

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Blame Microsoft
[info]drbrain
2005-05-27 06:27 pm UTC (link)
Since they came up with the name first.

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[info]jonathanaquino
2005-05-28 04:58 am UTC (link)
I'm wise. XmlHttpRequest. Consistency.

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So have you fallen in love yet?
(Anonymous)
2005-05-30 03:23 am UTC (link)
I meant, with Bangalore.
: )

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Re: So have you fallen in love yet?
[info]premshree
2005-05-30 03:35 am UTC (link)
Pray, tell me, how did you come to that conclusion?

Not that I really expect an answer, but you would be ...? :-|

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Re: So have you fallen in love yet?
(Anonymous)
2005-05-30 03:41 am UTC (link)
The glorious, absolutely perfect weather. People just "have" to fall in love with Bangalore for it.

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Re: So have you fallen in love yet?
[info]premshree
2005-05-30 03:47 am UTC (link)
Weather has been bloody awesome, yes. Loved the last few days.

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