The beginning lowerCase is often used in cases where the var or method name is made up of more than one word. You see it in the DHTML object model and also quite often in JavaScript programming. I have no idea who came up with the idea, but I've seen it in many places.

>With MSXML DOM object, I am wondering of the naming convention they use for specific methods. For example, createElement() is having a lower c such as appendChild() with the letter a. However, oNode.Text='Something' contains a upper T.
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>When I define some variables in Visual FoxPro, I'll always use proper capsing such as MyObject.CreateElement(), MyObject.AppendChild().
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>Why in this case, Microsoft is putting some lower letters in some cases?