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Bug 20191 - Spell filename(s) consistently, prolly without space (currently dominating). (Ignore section.)
Summary: Spell filename(s) consistently, prolly without space (currently dominating). ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-11-30 21:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-02-12 03:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-11-30 21:03:36 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#sandboxSubmitBlocked
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#sandboxSubmitBlocked

Comment:
Spell filename(s) consistently, prolly without space (currently dominating).
(Ignore section.)

Posted from: 82.161.179.17 by annevk@annevk.nl
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.20 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1337.0 Safari/537.20
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-02-09 22:05:20 UTC 
Actually without space wasn't dominating in prose, it was almost 50:50 but slight advantage to with space.
Comment 2 contributor 2013-02-09 22:05:29 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7717.
Check-in comment: Consistency. ('filename' for computer code, colloquial spec prose or examples, etc, and 'file name' for formal spec prose.)
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7716&to=7717
Comment 3 Anne 2013-02-10 10:17:08 UTC 
I'm not too happy with differing spelling based on those subtle rules. E.g. what if we want to use this name in an API, would that be fileName then? Wikipedia standardized on filename it seems (though acknowledges file name).

(Sorry to bikeshed on spelling.)
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-02-12 03:25:24 UTC 
APIs all use "filename" consistently.