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by _random_ 4393 days ago
They equally could've called it SQL256 or XML2000 and then explain that it doesn't mean what the abbreviation states. I guess there is no need to argue for us, but personally prefer names that reflect the nature precisely. At least this is how I name my programming constructs and projects.
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I know it's stupid, but the other alternative is calling it "HTML5&friends Game Engine", like the Mozilla guide suggests... Technically correct, but just as vague and now it sounds like a kid's show... I think we can easily agree this is not an improvement :)

The real name, which is "HTML5 + JavaScript + Canvas API + WebGL API + Web Audio API + Web Workers API + jQuery (for good measure, not actually used) + CSS3 Game Engine", doesn't fit on a t-shirt and, when put in a title tag, probably crashes older browsers and causes a Google employee to come and manually set your PageRank to -1.