Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
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Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
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Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#2Can anyone provide some background on the name? I'm not seeing the relation to Eric Meyers.
UPDATE: Ok I see why now... so sad. :(
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#3Mozilla Bug Report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024642
Webkit Bug Report: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133804
Apparently both of them are just waiting for Eric to confirm that this is OK.
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#4Can anyone provide some background on the name? I'm not seeing the relation to Eric Meyers. UPDATE: Ok I see why now... so sad. :( https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/476089708674428929 http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/09/in-memoriam-2/
Rebecca's history: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/category/personal/cancer/
Beautifully written, so hard to read.
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#5This seems excessive. I feel for the family in this time of loss, and of course I've seen the outpouring of support on Twitter about this color, but I don't see why it makes any sense to make it a permanent part of CSS. Is there any precedent for other personal stuff like this in the web standards, de facto or otherwise?
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#6This seems excessive. I feel for the family in this time of loss, and of course I've seen the outpouring of support on Twitter about this color, but I don't see why it makes any sense to make it a permanent part of CSS. Is there any precedent for other personal stuff like this in the web standards, de facto or otherwise?
it's a mark of respect, like dedicating a movie to someone. I think the community raising a symbol of support for Meyer in such dark times is much more important than strict naming of CSS colours and I hope you feel the same.
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#7This seems excessive. I feel for the family in this time of loss, and of course I've seen the outpouring of support on Twitter about this color, but I don't see why it makes any sense to make it a permanent part of CSS. Is there any precedent for other personal stuff like this in the web standards, de facto or otherwise?
Take a step back and ask yourself question: does it matter? I can see where you're coming from; but, honestly: is your life going to be at all impacted by the name of an individual color?
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#8There is no such a thing as CSS4. The specification model has changed. We now have versions per module.
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#9This seems excessive. I feel for the family in this time of loss, and of course I've seen the outpouring of support on Twitter about this color, but I don't see why it makes any sense to make it a permanent part of CSS. Is there any precedent for other personal stuff like this in the web standards, de facto or otherwise?
it's a mark of respect, like dedicating a movie to someone. I think the community raising a symbol of support for Meyer in such dark times is much more important than strict naming of CSS colours and I hope you feel the same.
wouldn't it be more thoughtful to remember becca and support her family through a charitable donation or something along those lines rather than trivialize an internet spec?
i feel for the family though and i think it was kind of jeff to reach out to them in a special way today.
EDIT: just so others are aware what the family's wishes are:
"The family requests charitable donations be made in Rebecca’s name to the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House or the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. They further request that those who attend the services and are comfortable wearing purple do so in honor of Rebecca and her favorite color."
Re: Name #663399 “Becca Purple” in CSS4 Color?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's a mark of respect, like dedicating a movie to someone. I think the community raising a symbol of support for Meyer in such dark times is much more important than strict naming of CSS colours and I hope you feel the same.
wouldn't it be more thoughtful to remember becca and support her family through a charitable donation or something along those lines rather than trivialize an internet spec? i feel for the family though and i think it was kind of jeff to reach out to them in a special way today. EDIT: just so others are aware what the family's wishes are: "The family requests charitable donations be made in Rebecca’s name to the Phil…
Why the dichotomy? Why can't we have both?
Throughout this whole ordeal Eric has maintained that it is with the support of various communities that he has been able to deal with this tragedy. Eric has done a lot for CSS and the web as a whole, and this request would add zero additional complexity to the specification and only one or two lines of code to the implementation.
It really isn't that big a deal, but there's a lot of us that respect him enough that we'd like to do anything in our power to show our support for him and his family right now, even if it's just to memorialize his daughter's favorite color.