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Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by dziulius on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:48AM (#18698150)
Nice name for the namespace (`WTF`).
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by yoklov on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:04AM (#18698207)
I've always loved that both webkit and gecko (MFBT -- mozilla framework for building templates) use vaguely non-work-safe acronyms of their template frameworks.
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by chrisparton1991 on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:15AM (#18698244)
In a similar vein, Android has Log.wtf, which stands for "What a Terrible Failure".
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by bigiain on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:43AM (#18698350)
_Suuuure_ it does...

I remember when TheDailyWTF.com tried to rebrand for advertisers as "Daily Worse Than Failure". Nobody fell for it then either...

Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by vxNsr on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:59AM (#18700159)
I recall a talk someone from microsoft gave about needing to create another driver in windows xp fairly late in the process and they gave it a NSFW name/acronym and then retroactively came up with a working name that fit the acronym. Apparently it's still in use today. I can't remember what the driver is though.
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by edoceo on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:09PM (#18700244)
AFD. Ancillary Function Driver
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by vxNsr on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:37PM (#18731442)
Yup that looks like it.
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by cbzoiav on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:06PM (#18702683)
We use BlackBerry Works...
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by saagarjha on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:42AM (#18698344)
For those curious, WTF stands for “Web Template Framework”.
Re:Locking in WebKit (2016) by detaro on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:43AM (#18698346)
As explained in the first sentence of the article.