I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
Terrible choice of words.
I doubt this would really affect you in any meaningful way.
Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
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Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#12I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
First, it's meant for humans. As a gesture. Surely you've heard of those.
Second, it's not like CSS is not 50% ill-though BS legacy stuff all around, and some over-engineered crap in tons of sub-specs. A color name will hardly make any difference to anything.
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#13Before Rebecca passed, her older sister Carolyn requested help [1] to raise money for childhood cancer research by participating in a shave-a-thon.
I was slightly upset to see she only got to 90% ($10,443 of $11,500) of her goal [2] -I guess I'm hoping the internet can step up and help (I believe we can still add donations after the event).
Edit: I'd point out that "The family requests charitable donations be made in Rebecca’s name to the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House [3] or the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. [1]", however I think it's important for Carolyn to know her earlier actions specifically were and continue to be worthy of support and respect.
[1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/02/26/a-st-baldricks-...
[2] https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#14I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
I'm not sure if the deadfly remark is some morbid joke, but I agree with the first half of your post.
While it is a great gesture to a man many of us look up to and are grateful for his work, where will it end, if we need to pay tribute in the form of specs to all the losses of people involved in developing the open web?
And so what if HN users are mostly on macs?
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#15I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
Before you follow up with a rant on being downvoted for merely having a different opinion: I only speak for myself but I don't mind you saying you're opposed to this proposal. Sure, it makes me not like you but if I downvoted everyone I didn't like it'd be a full-time job.
The reason (at least, for me) is the rather insensitive way in which you expressed your opinion. Take a few steps back and reconsider what you wrote on what is essentially a thread about a father losing his daughter.
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#16I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
I'm not sure if the deadfly remark is some morbid joke, but I agree with the first half of your post. While it is a great gesture to a man many of us look up to and are grateful for his work, where will it end, if we need to pay tribute in the form of specs to all the losses of people involved in developing the open web? And so what if HN users are mostly on macs?
Where will it end? Think about the future! This will lead to so much abuse. /s
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#17I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
There's a CSS color named 'Gainsboro', and a color named 'NavajoWhite' that's not super close to white. 'RebeccaPurple', from a pragmatic sense, is easier to understand than those two in my opinion.
Navajo white was around long before CSS, perhaps the most used interior paint color for last 30 years of the 1900s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_white
While "gainsboro" as grey is now in the dictionary, used from rugs to Kate Spade pants, Wikipedia suggests it's from X11 colors with no real world usage before that.
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#18The original proposal was to call it beccapurple ( http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/name-663399-becca-purple... ). However, Eric Meyer asked for it to be rebeccapurple ( http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/ ).
That text is so sad... I don't why I feel so close to that guy, maybe because I bought his books and I learned CSS thanks to him.
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#19I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
I'm not sure if the deadfly remark is some morbid joke, but I agree with the first half of your post. While it is a great gesture to a man many of us look up to and are grateful for his work, where will it end, if we need to pay tribute in the form of specs to all the losses of people involved in developing the open web? And so what if HN users are mostly on macs?
If share a cookie with a friend, you're that person who demands I share with everyone within earshot, aren't you?
Just take it for what it is. It's one act of kindness. Buying a sandwich for a homeless person doesn't mean every homeless person is now entitled to a sandwich from you.
Re: Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4
#20They could have added a dedication in the acknowledgements rather than change the content of a binding specs for personal reasons.