hi i'm a software engineer and i worked in the web for a good 8 years before i ever realized what the abbreviations i18n and l10n (internationalization and localization) stood for
literally i knew what they were *about*, but thought the numbers had something to do with some funky standards body or some shit
numeronyms of this form are bad so so so so bad don't
just
don't
@tcql also firefox's new thing is being called e10s
I don't even know what it stands for or what it does but I know it adds an "e10s (<cryptic numbers>)" after every page title
@staticsafe @tcql that's an odd name for a software thing. what does it do?
@Felthry @tcql Mozilla's wiki seems to be down but:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171201232055/https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
It's the name of the project for multi-process stuff that is in Firefox now
@staticsafe @Felthry @tcql oh what, I thought you just made that up bc the word happened to fit.
@Felthry @tcql electrolysis