<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.6944.0"> <TITLE>Re: [PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id=idOWAReplyText77847 dir=ltr> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>On Thu 10/13/2005 11:02 AM Dan Winship wrote:</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Googling for "CSS" gives "about 236,000,000" hits. Googling for<BR>> "Cascading Style Sheets" gives "about 10,100,000" hits. The acronym is<BR>> 20 times more commonly-used than the name. (Doing a search on Amazon<BR>> titles, the advantage drops to a mere factor of 4.)<BR>><BR>> CSS is even a bit of an edge case here; "JPEG" gets 140 times more hits<BR>> than "Joint Photographic Experts Group". "PCI" gets 1400 times more hits<BR>> than "Peripheral Component Interconnect". (Raise your hand if you even<BR>> knew what PCI stood for. Oh, hi there, you in the back. Now go back to<BR>> writing device drivers.)<BR><BR>What acronym can beat "TWAIN" - "Technology Without An Interesting Name"<BR><BR>-larry</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></DIV></FONT> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2><BR><BR><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT></DIV> </BODY> </HTML>