Aephea is pronounced ay - 'fee - ah, or 'ee - fee - ah, or any amalgam of the two, and stands somewhat grandiosely for Adaptable Exo-skeleton for Practical HTML Extension and Abstraction. It is a thin, expressive, and programmable framework for creating HTML documents, aimed at people who are familiar with HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, or intending to become so. Three micro-formats are currently shipped with it.