why is the "d" lowercase in getElementById?

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LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

did someone screw up writing it this way and just say "welp, too late now! need to keep it as is!"?

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:17

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Space-Pope: Aug 13, 2003; by zen death robot

getElementBySuperego

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:19

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

they could have at least added the grammatically correct function name and just have it execute the same function as the old one

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:24

Ericadia: Oct 31, 2007; Not A Unicorn

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:30

pram: Jun 10, 2001

stop posting op

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:33

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:34

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

lmao camel case

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:47

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

haha

i like camel case, but you still should capitalize both the "I" and "D" for the abbreviation of "identity" or "identifier". Id is the abbreviation for Eid, which is a muslim festival. it's also the doom game company.

# ? Dec 1, 2015 17:58

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

three letter words need abbreviations

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

# ? Dec 1, 2015 18:00

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

just use jquery, op

# ? Dec 1, 2015 18:05

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

haha

i like camel case, but you still should capitalize both the "I" and "D" for the abbreviation of "identity" or "identifier". Id is the abbreviation for Eid, which is a muslim festival. it's also the doom game company.

don't forget the lube

# ? Dec 1, 2015 18:15

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

ha! that's some #freudianhumor right there

akadajet posted:

just use jquery, op

um, i'm actually a purist. no need for terrible libraries

# ? Dec 1, 2015 19:45

N.Z.'s Champion: Jun 8, 2003; Yam Slacker

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

# ? Dec 1, 2015 21:14

overeager overeater: Oct 16, 2011; "The cosmonauts were transfixed with wonderment as the sun set - over the Earth - there lucklessly, untethered Comrade Todd on fire."

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

sometimes a '0' is just a 0

# ? Dec 1, 2015 21:21

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

Vlad the Retailer posted:

sometimes a '0' is just a 0

TRUE

# ? Dec 1, 2015 21:22

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

Sweevo posted:

lmao camel case

meanwhile, there's the absolutely indefensible XMLHttpRequest

Space-Pope posted:

getElementBySuperego

ee hee hee

# ? Dec 1, 2015 21:25

MrMoo: Sep 14, 2000

qntm posted:

meanwhile, there's the absolutely indefensible XMLHttpRequest

Well the reason for that is obvious:

quote:

XMLHttpRequest was originally designed by Microsoft and adopted by Mozilla, Apple, and Google. It's now being standardized at the WHATWG.

# ? Dec 1, 2015 21:38

exe cummings: Jan 22, 2005

XMLHTTPRequest

# ? Dec 1, 2015 22:41

exe cummings: Jan 22, 2005

yard salad posted:

XMLHTTPRequest

no thanks, i'll stick with the idiosyncratic camel case rules that reward someone in the know, and clever, like myself. like wheat from chaff

# ? Dec 1, 2015 22:42

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

yard salad posted:

no thanks, i'll stick with the idiosyncratic camel case rules that reward someone in the know, and clever, like myself. like wheat from chaff

the "ML" is capitalized but the "ttp" is not. not as camel case as you'd probably want it to be!

# ? Dec 2, 2015 19:34

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest

# ? Dec 2, 2015 19:36

exe cummings: Jan 22, 2005

Bloody posted:

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest

# ? Dec 2, 2015 20:10

foxy boxing babe: Jan 17, 2010

Bloody posted:

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest

# ? Dec 2, 2015 20:17

shitface: Nov 23, 2006

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

did someone screw up writing it this way and just say "welp, too late now! need to keep it as is!"?

in your case the d is always small

# ? Dec 2, 2015 21:18

Yaoi Gagarin: Feb 20, 2014

Vlad the Retailer posted:

sometimes a '0' is just a 0

what if it's a big-O?

# ? Dec 2, 2015 21:20

Plorkyeran: Mar 22, 2007; To Escape The Shackles Of The Old Forums, We Must Reject The Tribal Negativity He Endorsed

Bloody posted:

eXtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest

# ? Dec 2, 2015 22:25

JewKiller 3000: Nov 28, 2006; by Lowtax

Bloody posted:

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequestFactoryBean

# ? Dec 2, 2015 22:43

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

i like camel case, but you still should capitalize both the "I" and "D" for the abbreviation of "identity" or "identifier".

what about if you have a word coming after an all-caps abbreviation or acronym? then it'll start with a capital letter and it'll look like it's part of the same thi-

qntm posted:

XMLHttpRequest

# ? Dec 2, 2015 23:29

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

JewKiller 3000 posted:

ExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest theRequest = AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequestFactory.GetExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequestFactory().CreateExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest();

# ? Dec 3, 2015 00:25

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

tbf in javascript that would just be

JavaScript code:

var theRequest = AbstractExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequestFactory.GetExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequestFactory().CreateExtensibleMarkupLanguageHyperTextTransferProtocolRequest();

p much the only time dumb typing would almost be good

# ? Dec 3, 2015 01:05

Silver Alicorn: Mar 30, 2008; 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

but when I type http in my address bar it's lowercase

# ? Dec 3, 2015 01:27

Breakfast All Day: Oct 21, 2004

http actually stands for "hit up", as in "hold on a second, let me hit up google"

it was latter backronymed to "here to troll post"

hth

# ? Dec 3, 2015 02:24

Dr. Honked: Jan 9, 2011; eat it you slaaaaaaag

op here is your answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFr3UyVpRA

# ? Dec 3, 2015 03:38

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

gently caress u op i clicked this link for the D in quotes and am terribly disappointed

# ? Dec 3, 2015 03:42

Ericadia: Oct 31, 2007; Not A Unicorn

Sniep posted:

gently caress u op i clicked this link for the D in quotes and am terribly disappointed

"d" indeed

# ? Dec 3, 2015 07:51

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

camel case is gross

# ? Dec 3, 2015 08:24

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

my stepdads beer posted:

uppercase is gross

# ? Dec 3, 2015 11:04

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

Breakfast All Day posted:

http actually stands for "hit up", as in "hold on a second, let me hit up google"

it was latter backronymed to "here to troll post"

hypertext helps

# ? Dec 3, 2015 12:22

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

HTTP actually stands for He Thumped The Pussy.

it's promoting sexual violence and should be boycotted. please sign my epetition

# ? Dec 3, 2015 12:40

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emoji: Jun 4, 2004

qntm posted:

meanwhile, there's the absolutely indefensible XMLHttpRequest

ee hee hee

It's defensible because it looks better and is more readable. You will always see this pattern for adjacent acronyms because keeping all of them all caps removes information on which letters belong to which. Adhering to the 'rules' and reducing clarity makes no sense because the 'rules' are there to provide clarity, not satisfy OCD tendencies. Hope this helps.

# ? Dec 4, 2015 16:34

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