Inconsistent naming dijit.form.TextBox but Textarea

[wolfram]

TextBox (with a capital "B") but Textarea with small "a". It should be TextArea too, if i look at ComboBox?, etc. all other things are properly named camel case.

[peller]

Perhaps doug remembers the discussion better, but we agonized over this in 1.0 and decided to leave it alone. We're probably stuck with it now. wontfix?

[wolfram]

What about offering an alias? And may be deprecating it later? But I guess that had been discussed too :-)

[wolfram]

dijit.Toolbar is the same, it should be dijit.ToolBar I know it hurts to see, but consistency is really helping easier development a lot, imho

[bill]

Hi. In the back of my mind I meant for all this stuff to be proper cased, but I wrote #3838 poorly because I only mentioned *Box.

Searching for textarea or textarea within flash confirms that "TextArea" is more standard, and judging from MSDN, ToolBar and ToolTip should both be propercased too.

Obviously any such change would need a deprecation cycle until 2.0. Leaving this marked for 1.1 although could be moved to 1.2.

[doughays]

dijit.Tooltip => dijit.ToolTip??

[doughays]

What about function names? dijit/_editor/_Plugin.js: setToolbar: function() Easy to change but I'll have to create a deprecated function with the old name.

What about CSS class names? (there are lots for Toolbar, none for TextArea?)
.dijitToolbar, .dijitTooltipLeft, .dijitTooltipRight,.dijitTooltipDialog, et al
We could leave these alone but it would be a little confusing. If we change them, then deprecation is lost (assuming the user has overridden CSS rules). If we create duplicate rules with both old and new names, then there are code issues for when class names are generated to reflect widget states (disabled, hover, et al).

[bill]

I'm deferring this to 2.0 when we are allowed to break backwards compatibility. Although it would be easy to do deprecation for changes to widget names (ie, class names) and method names, this task would also result in CSS changes (for Tooltip and Toolbar), and file name changes, which affect dojo.require() statements.

[alex]

Milestone 2.0 deleted