Re: WhatTF > EXTF

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:56 AM, François REMY <
francois.remy.dev@outlook.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.
>
> I like the idea, too. It has the advantage of being open to interpretation
> and therefore makes it easy to repurpose as the group shapes itself over
> time.
>
> While "Houdini.org" is obviously taken, "houdini-boxes.org", "
> houdini-css.org" and "houdini-style.org" are all free and look nice to me.
>
> That being said I don't mind EXTF at all (but it looks slightly too
> general, we could almost believe it's actually the Extensible Web Task
> Force).
>

houdini-project.org is also available, FWIW :)

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