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 = 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] * 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] * GPU = Graphics Processing Unit * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/gpu WebCore/platform/graphics/gpu] * 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] * SVG = [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG Scalable Vector Graphics] * WHATWG = [http://www.whatwg.org Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group] * WTF = Web Template Framework * [http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WTF Source/WTF] * XML = [http://www.w3.org/xml eXtensible Markup Language] :-)