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Come up with a better name

Open iffy opened this issue 8 years ago • 10 comments

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

iffy avatar Jan 20 '17 18:01 iffy

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

iffy avatar Jan 23 '17 23:01 iffy

  • .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

iffy avatar Jan 24 '17 04:01 iffy

👍 for .pwf and .waz

phantomxc avatar Jan 24 '17 20:01 phantomxc

:+1: for .pff and .hdf

fiatjaf avatar Feb 09 '17 00:02 fiatjaf

.web for web application

rizrmd avatar Feb 09 '17 01:02 rizrmd

👍 for .pwf since this is similar to .pdf

zcdunn avatar Feb 09 '17 15:02 zcdunn

:+1: for .pwf since this is similar to .pdf

Is that good? It will confuse users.

fiatjaf avatar Feb 09 '17 18:02 fiatjaf

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

zcdunn avatar Feb 09 '17 20:02 zcdunn

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.

iffy avatar Feb 13 '17 21:02 iffy

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

rizrmd avatar Feb 15 '17 13:02 rizrmd