RE: WhatTF > EXTF

> -----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

Received on Monday, 15 December 2014 18:32:52 UTC