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They could have added a dedication in the acknowledgements rather than change the content of a binding specs for personal reasons.
I really don't think the spec will be hurt by an additional one.
The 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/ ).
She made it to six. For almost twelve hours, she was six. So Rebecca it is and must be."
I never thought a tweak note for a minor proposed CSS standard would make me cry this hard.
They could have added a dedication in the acknowledgements rather than change the content of a binding specs for personal reasons.
FYI: other CSS colors include such oddities as dodgerblue, gainsboro, papayawhip, peachpuff, and peru. I really don't think the spec will be hurt by an additional one.
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FYI: other CSS colors include such oddities as dodgerblue, gainsboro, papayawhip, peachpuff, and peru. I really don't think the spec will be hurt by an additional one.
Is there a near-zero performance impact for checking all of the human-friendly names in CSS?
(there is a list here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value )
I 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?
RFC 2468 - "I remember IANA". Vint Cerf did it for Jon Postel. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
(And the number is a nice touch too)
I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
I 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 wro…
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Is there a near-zero performance impact for checking all of the human-friendly names in CSS?
CSS seems to define about a 150 named colours. One more shouldn't make a noticeable difference. (there is a list here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value )