Javascript doesn't need a capital s
Supposedly the correct way to write JavaScript is as it just appeared in this sentence. I understand that it being a proper noun it gets its first letter capitalized. But capitalizing the s is obnoxious extra work.
I’m not pretending this is an interesting post to finally return here with. Call it a warm up. Back to the matter at hand. I just ran a quick survey of a few big name Javascript libraries to see how they treat the word Javascript. They all capitalized the s. I suppose if you are releasing a library it’s best to be “correct”. Even if it is just following some silly style guidelines probably released by the marketing arm of some mostly defunct company. Although if they’re into being correct than I don’t know why three out of the five I reviewed would describe themselves as either a “JavaScript Library” or “JavaScript Framework”. Is it not silly to capitalize the words library or framework?
While writing this post I noticed that even the spell checker in Firefox wants the s in Javascript capitalized. So then I checked the spell checker in gmail. It doesn’t mind if you don’t even capitalize the j. I like that better.
Now you know my take on this less than critical issue.
