In source code, we prefer full word rather than abbreviation. Although, we use abbreviation and acronyms in emails, IRC, speaking and so on. This page is collection of acronyms I heard so far. Please feel free to add abbreviation and acronyms you heard or want to use. * AIR = Adobe AIR * CA = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Animation Core Animation] (MacOS) * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/ca WebCore/platform/grapphics/ca] * CC = Chromium Compositor * CF = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Foundation Core Foundation] (MacOS) * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/cf WebCore/platform/cf] * CG = Core Graphics (MacOS) * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/cg WebCore/platform/grapphics/cg] * DFG = Data Flow Graph (one of JIT tiers in [JavaScriptCore JSC]) * DOM = [http://www.w3.org/dom Document Object Model] * DRT = Dump Render Tree * EFL = [wiki:EFLWebKit Enlightenment Foundation Libraries] * EWS = [wiki:EWS Early Warning System] [http://queues.webkit.org Queue Status] * GPU = Graphics Processing Unit * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/gpu WebCore/platform/graphics/gpu] * GTK+ = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTK%2B GIMP ToolKit] * GYP = [http://code.google.com/p/gyp Generate Your Projects] (Google) * HTML = [http://www.w3.org/html Hyper Text Markup Language] :-) * ICU = [http://site.icu-project.org International Components for Unicode] * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WTF/icu Source/WTF/icu] * IDL = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDL_specification_language Interface Description Language] * JNI = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNI Java Native Interface] * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/bridge/jni WebCore/bridge/jni] * JSC = [[JavaScriptCore]] * KURL = From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML KHTML]? * NP = [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NPObject Netscape Plug-in] * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/bridge/npruntime.cpp WebCore/bridge/npruntime.cpp] * NRWT = new-run-webkit-tests (new implementation of run-webkit-tests, the only one since r171967) * NS = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep NextStep] * ORWT = old-run-webkit-tests (removed in r171967) * PB = Project Builder (MacOS) * POD = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_data_structure Plain Old Data] * Qt = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(framework) Qt] cross-platform framework * SVG = [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG Scalable Vector Graphics] * TOT = Tip of Tree = The latest commit on the tree, Did you try on TOT? * UUID = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier Universally unique identifier] aka [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_unique_identifier GUID](MS) * WHATWG = [http://www.whatwg.org Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group] * WIP = Work In Progress * WK = WebKit * WK1 = WebKit1 * WK2 = WebKit2 * WTF = Web Template Framework * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WTF Source/WTF] * WTR = WebKit Test Runner * wx = [wiki:wxWebKit wxWidget] * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/wx WebCore/platform/wx] * xcconfig = XCode Config (MacOS) * XML = [http://www.w3.org/xml eXtensible Markup Language] :-)