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>Perhaps the most vehement denunciation comes from a 2002 e-mail written by programmer Steven Pemberton: “The X11 colour names are an abomination that should ha
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
>Perhaps the most vehement denunciation comes from a 2002 e-mail written by programmer Steven Pemberton: “The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design of CSS.
Now I don't have much experience with CSS. Only have been using it for ~5 years, and never any of the real complex magic. But if I were to make a list of design problems I have with CSS, color names wouldn't even make it on the list.
- coldtea 11y agoYeah, it's not like various programmers don't write "denunciation" emails/posts all the time for every kind of thing. Not sure why this particular denunciation gives the issue much weight. Besides this guy is associated with even more failed projects than CSS color names, such as XHTML2, XForms, and RDFa.
- wmil 11y agoThe "otherwise excellent design of CSS"? That's something I've never heard anyone say... The IE5.5 border-box box model issues happened because the CSS box model was so strange they assumed it was a mistake in the spec.
- johnchristopher 11y agoChuckles The other narrative I heard from some MS devs at the time was more like "we are reading the specs right, mozilla got it wrong". I might still have the IRC logs to back this up.
- nly 11y agoDid MS even talk to the authors of the spec or Mozilla about it before shipping?
- johnchristopher 11y agoI don't remember when MS entered the W3C but that comment was around IE6 times.