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 = ​Core Animation (MacOS)
  • ​WebCore/platform/grapphics/ca
• CC = Chromium Compositor
• CF = ​Core Foundation (MacOS)
  • ​WebCore/platform/cf
• CG = Core Graphics (MacOS)
  • ​WebCore/platform/grapphics/cg
• DFG = Data Flow Graph (one of JIT tiers in JSC)
• DOM = ​Document Object Model
• DRT = Dump Render Tree
• EFL = Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
• EWS = Early Warning System ​Queue Status
• GPU = Graphics Processing Unit
  • ​WebCore/platform/graphics/gpu
• GTK+ = ​GIMP ToolKit
• GYP = ​Generate Your Projects (Google)
• HTML = ​Hyper Text Markup Language :-)
• ICU = ​International Components for Unicode
  • ​Source/WTF/icu
• IDL = ​Interface Description Language
• JNI = ​Java Native Interface
  • ​WebCore/bridge/jni
• JSC = JavaScriptCore
• KURL = From ​KHTML?
• NP = ​Netscape Plug-in
  • ​WebCore/bridge/npruntime.cpp
• NRWT = new-run-webkit-tests (new implementation of run-webkit-tests, the only one since r171967)
• NS = ​NextStep
• ORWT = old-run-webkit-tests (removed in r171967)
• PB = Project Builder (MacOS)
• POD = ​Plain Old Data
• Qt = ​Qt cross-platform framework
• SVG = ​Scalable Vector Graphics
• TOT = Tip of Tree = The latest commit on the tree, Did you try on TOT?
• UUID = ​Universally unique identifier aka ​GUID(MS)
• WHATWG = ​Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
• WIP = Work In Progress
• WK = WebKit
  • WK1 = WebKit1
  • WK2 = WebKit2
• WTF = Web Template Framework
  • ​Source/WTF
• WTR = WebKit Test Runner
• wx = wxWidget
  • ​WebCore/platform/wx
• xcconfig = XCode Config (MacOS)
• XML = ​eXtensible Markup Language :-)