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It really isn't that big a deal, but there's a lot of us that respect him enough It is a really big deal, adding enormous politics and payload to every change

by personZ 12y ago

It really isn't that big a deal, but there's a lot of us that respect him enough It is a really big deal, adding enormous politics and payload to every change going forward: Once you start memorializing people through standards, you are implicitly choosing not to memorialize everyone who doesn't get codified in such a way. Every city and region has a long backlog of honorarium names for upcoming streets and parks, inevitable discussions and debates, etc. Don't turn standards into that. This is one of those internet things where everyone looks for some cheap feels by saying "Sure, do it!", maybe sending out a couple of easy tweets. That sort of herd behavior should never influence standards, and it is somewhat ridiculous that this discussion is taking place.

DanBC 12y ago
RFC2468 is touching. https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
fixermark 12y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value, search for aliceblue. Now look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue. It's already happened. You can argue it's a grandfathered name from color standards predating CSS, but this process right here is how these things happen. I think the world will survive the occasional honorarium done in this fashion. I would even be willing to wager that the world will survive a great many honoraria done in this fashion, if that's what people want; it's just an entry in a lookup table. There's no meaningful risk here; standards have always been what people can agree upon.
- tghw 12y ago
  Yes, but that was a child of a US president, also a song, in a musical and a movie, is used on US Naval vessles, and was one of the original X11 names. And it was picked because it is the specific blue of her gown. My heart goes out to Eric and his family; I practically learned CSS from him. But I don't think that inclusion of what seems to be an arbitrary purple makes sense.

by personZ 12y ago

DanBC 12y ago

RFC2468 is touching. https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt

fixermark 12y ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value, search for aliceblue. Now look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue. It's already happened. You can argue it's a grandfathered name from color standards predating CSS, but this process right here is how these things happen. I think the world will survive the occasional honorarium done in this fashion. I would even be willing to wager that the world will survive a great many honoraria done in this fashion, if that's what people want; it's just an entry in a lookup table. There's no meaningful risk here; standards have always been what people can agree upon.

tghw 12y ago
Yes, but that was a child of a US president, also a song, in a musical and a movie, is used on US Naval vessles, and was one of the original X11 names. And it was picked because it is the specific blue of her gown. My heart goes out to Eric and his family; I practically learned CSS from him. But I don't think that inclusion of what seems to be an arbitrary purple makes sense.