- From: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:08:15 -0500
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Cc: Rossen Atanassov <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>, "public-wtf@w3.org" <public-wtf@w3.org>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd like to suggest something completely different while we have 1000 > options on the table. Instead of YASUA (Yet another stupid unpronounceable > acronym) which we will bikeshed meanings about for all eternity, let's just > give it an abstract code-name - there's a rich history of doing this in > software (and in standards - HTML 3.2 was code named "Wilbur" and the next > was named "Cougar"). > > Let's just call it "Project Houdini". Houdini was an illusionist, not a > magician. He was a great explainer of anything claiming to be 'magic' and > belonged to a Scientific American committee which publicly offered a prize > to anyone who could demonstrate something supernatural. The aim of this > task force, I think, is to somehow (in the words of the Extensible Web > Manifesto) explain (and expose) the underlying magic of the platform and > allow extensibility in the one place in the platform which has been > historically a little hostile to such ideas. > Even better, Houdini escaped from boxes. So yes, this is a great idea. Dave
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