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0 pointsbdcravens6y ago0 comments

> it was blindingly obvious where it came from

Why so many APIs in the Apple ecosystem start with NS

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dlivingston6y ago· 1 in thread

Oh man, I hadn't made that connection before but it's so obvious now

Firefox has its own historical code with NS- prefixes inherited from Netscape. The joke now is that NS standards for "namespace". :)

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