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Come up with a better name #2

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iffy opened this issue Jan 20, 2017 · 10 comments
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Come up with a better name #2

iffy opened this issue Jan 20, 2017 · 10 comments

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@iffy
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iffy commented Jan 20, 2017

LHTML is a mouthful, and it's 5 letters. Let's find something that's 3 letters and rolls off the tongue.

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iffy commented Jan 23, 2017

Some ideas:

  • .pff Portable Form Format
  • .phf Portable HTML Format
  • .pwa Portable Web App
  • .hdf Hipster Document Format
  • .pwf Portable Web Format
  • .wat Web Application Tome

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iffy commented Jan 24, 2017

  • .hi HTML Interchange
  • .roh Regular Old HTML
  • .woz Web-Originated Zip
  • .waz Web Application Zip
  • .zwa Zipped Web Application
  • .zah Zipped Application of HTML
  • .zap Zipped App

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👍 for .pwf and .waz

@fiatjaf
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fiatjaf commented Feb 9, 2017

👍 for .pff and .hdf

@rizrmd
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rizrmd commented Feb 9, 2017

.web for web application

@zcdunn
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zcdunn commented Feb 9, 2017

👍 for .pwf since this is similar to .pdf

@fiatjaf
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fiatjaf commented Feb 9, 2017

👍 for .pwf since this is similar to .pdf

Is that good? It will confuse users.

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zcdunn commented Feb 9, 2017

Is that good? It will confuse users.

How so? PDFs are common enough to be a common noun for non-technical users and they understand what a pdf is. If they see a .pwf file, I don't see them thinking it's a pdf. Most OS's use a specific icon for pdfs

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iffy commented Feb 13, 2017

Some criteria I've been thinking about (though it's not firm criteria, since PDF doesn't conform and it's an okay name):

  • It should be easy to understand when spoken over the phone
  • Perhaps avoid "web" because fiatjaf has a good point. Though the technologies being used came from the web, LHTML doesn't actually use the Internet/Web to function.

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rizrmd commented Feb 15, 2017

Maybe .hap for html application ? simple to pronounce, easy to remember.

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