Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering Engine

Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by vacri on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @07:33PM (#5490005)

Please, when you make a new project, please, please don't use a pre-existing English word. Perl? Great name. Searchable. You won't be contaminated and neither will you contaminate others. Tumblr? Same thing.

Python? Well, has a lot of groundswell so now tech 'owns' the name, but you contaminate other people's search.

Rust? (or a million other projects without python's heft) The reverse issue.

Blink also has the problem of already being a word used occasionally in web design (bad or otherwise).

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by JamesAcorn on Saturday April 06, 2013 @12:02PM (#5503958)

'Chrome' used to refer to the GUI elements that surround a webpage - scrollbars, back button etc. Google changed that.

Google will effectively Google-bomb the web development word 'blink' too. It is no big loss.

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Re:Google Forks WebKit And Launches Blink, A New Rendering E... by thatthatis on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @08:25PM (#5490183)

At least until a quick and convenient context setting syntax enters the mainstream search syntax.

Id love the ability to search "Json parsers [python]" or "music packages [django[python[programming]]]"

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