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One way around the implied slippery slope is to impose a time limit: If anyone still wants this in after twenty years, it goes in, but not before. Yes, it's ar
by cbd1984 11y ago
One way around the implied slippery slope is to impose a time limit: If anyone still wants this in after twenty years, it goes in, but not before.
Yes, it's arbitrary. These are color names. They're inherently arbitrary. If there's no limit, our list of CSS colors will become a list of dead people, which is nice and all but isn't useful for the task of assigning human-meaningful names to points on the color spectrum. Let's see, was this dead kid bluer or redder than that dead kid...
- schwabacher 11y agothere is a limit of 16^6 24 bit colors
- cbd1984 11y agoSo if this becomes a thing, there are people who will be left out, simply because either the community arbitrarily says "No" just like it arbitrarily said "Yes" in the past, or because there's no more room in the spec. Either way is a recipe for bad blood. "Rough consensus and running code" is a powerful methodology for low-overhead development right up until it means everyone gets all emotional over what a color is named and whether there are too many memorials in something originally designed to be simple and useful. Say what you will about bureaucracy, it at least enforces a certain emotional distance when people are bound by rules and can legitimately say that their refusal is nothing personal.
- a3n 11y ago"Either way is a recipe for bad blood." In this case, that sounds like an attempt at premature social optimization. It's a nice gesture. If it becomes a problem we'll deal with it.
- 20150518 11y agoThat thinking will not get you far here with the HN circlejerk, hehe. But I agree with you. IMO that kind of thing shouldn't go through. It is absolutely NOT relevant to the field at hand, I wasn't aware of Meyers existence until this came up, let alone his daughter. He was not, at all, someone that you would deem crucial for the development of CSS. Meyer was the one that proposed this (not the community), and IIRC, made it up merely hours around the decease of his girl. I'm sorry if I sound negative but that is the truth. If y'all guys like him because he's (or you enjoy to imagine that he's) your friend it's ok, but it's not mine and all of this, from an unbiased point of view, is nonsense. I'm still yet to hear a solid reason on to why this is OK, other than 'just compassion man'.
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