Question

I’m having a hard time resolving a naming convention conflict I’m having with implementing part of the W3C HTML5 specification using .Net.

The issue is that I like to conform to standard .Net naming conventions, which use UpperCamelCasing, but the W3C specifications indicate that the naming conventions should use lowerCamelCasing.

Should I deviate from the specification in order to write code that is friendly and familiar to the .Net community, or should I use the W3C-recommended conventions in order to stick to the specification as closely as possible, even though this will make my Code.notVeryPretty()?

EDIT

Example:

The W3C defines an interface IDOMImplementation with a member hasFeature(). If I were writing .Net code without a W3C specification guiding the implementation, these would be named IDomImplementation and HasFeature(), but the W3C defines naming conventions as specified above.

EDIT

To ask this question a completely different way, is there any downside to deviating from the W3C-recommended casing conventions when implementating their specification using .Net?

Answer 1

Use UpperCamelCasing for .NET code and lowerCamelCasing for your HTML/CSS/Javascript/other W3C stuff.

In what situation would you code .NET code using W3C recommended naming conventions?

Edit:

Now that you have clarified exactly what you mean, I would say that since your code is to be consumed within .NET, you should stick with .NET conventions, even when implementing an interface defined by W3C.