[microformats-discuss] REST-discuss list, naming

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Dimitri,

> How about RAX:
>
> * RESTful
> * API
> * with XHTML

My main concern with "X" in an acronym is that it ties us too closely  
to XML (a la AJAX et al).  Even though we nominally use XHTML, the  
conceptual breakthrough is using semantic HTML as a way to do REST.

Hmmm. "SH" is promising...

SHAR:
* Semantic
* HTML
* APIs for
* REST

?

-- Ernie P.




On Oct 19, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:

> On 10/19/05, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
>> I'm still working on a name.  How's this:
>>
>> "BRUM"
>> * Browseable
>> * REST
>> * Using
>> * MIcroformats
>
> There's something there.
>
>> My main concern with XOXR is that "eXtensible Open" doesn't convey a
>> lot of useful meaning.  "Browseable" is nice since it captures:
>>         - discoverability
>>         - human-readability
>>         - browser clients
>> in one fell swoop.
>
> I agree, XOXR is a bandwagon-jumper name. Doesn't really reflect  
> anything.
>
> How about RAX:
>
> * RESTful
> * API
> * with XHTML
>
>> -- Ernie the RESTafarian, pursuing the Grand Unified Theory of Web  
>> 2.0
>
> Dimitri the Surreptitious Ocean Boiler.
>
> :DG<
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Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
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