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Re:Office UI Fabric by gapchuboy on Monday August 31, 2015 @03:57PM (#10148726)
Naming hell again by Microsoft.

Why fabric?

Windows Server AppFabric https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Ff384253(v=Azure.10...

Azure has App fabric and fabric controller.

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Re:Office UI Fabric by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @05:12AM (#10151392)
Maybe a play on Google's "Material Design" ?
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Re:Office UI Fabric by userbinator on Monday August 31, 2015 @11:13PM (#10150515)
Maybe because they didn't want to use "framework".

I've mentally added "fabric" to my list of buzzwords.

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Re:Office UI Fabric by onion2k on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:27AM (#10151143)
And http://fabricjs.com is a separate JS framework for doing layout on an HTML5 Canvas.
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