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Naming it "Aurora" might be confusing, since that's what Mozilla calls the Alpha builds of Firefox. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora

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Yeah, but it had the name before Mozilla called their stuff Aurora, and it stuck.

But yes, it is slightly confusing, we know; we're just out of imagination and if something as nice pops up, we might rename Aurora.js to lessen the confusion.

Oh didn't realize your project was older. :) Anyway I doubt most people would really confuse the two.

Yeah, but when developing it ends up being confusing sometimes since we're often targeting Mozilla Aurora, it is also why I prefer to call it Aurora.js.

Mozilla named their alpha release channel "Aurora" in 2011, but the name is a nod to Netscape's 1997 Aurora project, a competitor to IE4's Active Desktop:

http://news.cnet.com/Netscape-previews-Aurora/2100-1001_3-20...

I was going to suggest the name "Jazz.js" because it is a music term that contains the letters J (from JavaScript) and A (from Audio). :) But I see that there is already a project called Jazz.js (a Node.js template engine).

I was then going to suggest the name "Jade.js" (JavaScript Audio Decoders Encoders), but I see that there is already a project called Jade.js (yet another Node.js template engine).

Can you just rename it Audora.js? Quick bing search didn't turn it up. It contains "aud" from audio, plus "aurora" is kind of wussy sounding anyway with no hard consonants.

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