- From: Rossen Atanassov <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 18:32:19 +0000
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-wtf@w3.org" <public-wtf@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Kardell [mailto:bkardell@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:55 PM > > 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"). Totally agree - we all use such codenames internally. > 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. Thanks for the great and creative idea Brad, Project Houdini sounds great! How about we settle on css-houdini.org (per other thread)? Thanks, Rossen
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