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Thanks! (Ecaron's parent comment to an older HN thread also had some comments that named a few) `dodgerblue` and `aliceblue` are pretty damning...I don't see m

by ddoolin 11y ago

Thanks! (Ecaron's parent comment to an older HN thread also had some comments that named a few) `dodgerblue` and `aliceblue` are pretty damning...I don't see much reason rebeccapurple shouldn't be added at that point. I guess there's the argument of not personalizing the content more than it already is.

userbinator 11y ago
I guess there's the argument of not personalizing the content more than it already is. There's also the argument of how much utility all these colour names actually have - if you did a survey of the colours specified in the CSS of all sites on the Internet, I bet a huge proportion of the ones that use colour names are the common ones like "black", "white", "red", "green", etc.; and the rest are specified in hex. All these other seldom-used names just take up space in every single piece of software that wants to claim compliance with CSS4 standard. Especially with the development of CSS preprocessors, it feels to me like hex colours would suffice; and perhaps the primary and secondary colours.