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Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4

106 points by theone 12y ago

dingdingdang 12y ago
I say read http://meyerweb.com/ http://meyerweb.com/, the posts by Eric are beautiful, sad and ultimately courageous. God speed to him and his whole family.
- K2h 12y ago
  So touching to read the thoughts of a parent as they go through the last days of life with their very loved daughter and family. This is what family is and the joy of life through the process of losing it.
jeroen 12y ago
The original proposal was to call it beccapurple ( http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/name-663399-becca-purple-in-css4-color/225 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/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/ ).
- baby 12y ago
  That text is so sad... I don't why I feel so close to that guy, maybe because I bought his books and I learned CSS thanks to him.
- spb 12y ago
  "I have been made aware of the proposal to add the named color beccapurple (equivalent to #663399) to the CSS specification [...] I did set one condition: that if the proposal is accepted, the official name be rebeccapurple. A couple of weeks before she died, Rebecca informed us that she was about to be a big girl of six years old, and Becca was a baby name. Once she turned six, she wanted everyone (not just me) to call her Rebecca, not Becca. 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.
jimhefferon 12y ago
http://www.colorpicker.com/663399 http://www.colorpicker.com/663399
- binarymax 12y ago
  Color-hex has some great info - it's what DDG uses to display color info when it detects a color search: http://www.color-hex.com/color/663399 http://www.color-hex.com/color/663399
JamonSilva 12y ago
I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.
- norswap 12y ago
  It will not be a burden on anyone. Show a little compassion.
- freditup 12y ago
  There's a CSS color named 'Gainsboro', and a color named 'NavajoWhite' that's not super close to white. 'RebeccaPurple', from a pragmatic sense, is easier to understand than those two in my opinion.
  - Terretta 12y ago
    Navajo white was around long before CSS, perhaps the most used interior paint color for last 30 years of the 1900s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_white http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_white While "gainsboro" as grey is now in the dictionary, used from rugs to Kate Spade pants, Wikipedia suggests it's from X11 colors with no real world usage before that.
- mongbatstar 12y ago
  Terrible choice of words. I doubt this would really affect you in any meaningful way.
- coldtea 12y ago
  First, it's meant for humans. As a gesture. Surely you've heard of those. Second, it's not like CSS is not 50% ill-though BS legacy stuff all around, and some over-engineered crap in tons of sub-specs. A color name will hardly make any difference to anything.
- wodenokoto 12y ago
  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?
norswap 12y ago
It is good to remember that there are humans building software, and I personally like the idea of software paying a tribute to the people behind it. Another example: http://www.wowwiki.com/Shrine_of_the_Fallen_Warrior http://www.wowwiki.com/Shrine_of_the_Fallen_Warrior
BuildTheRobots 12y ago
Before Rebecca passed, her older sister Carolyn requested help [1] to raise money for childhood cancer research by participating in a shave-a-thon. I was slightly upset to see she only got to 90% ($10,443 of $11,500) of her goal [2] -I guess I'm hoping the internet can step up and help (I believe we can still add donations after the event). Edit: I'd point out that "The family requests charitable donations be made in Rebecca’s name to the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House [3] or the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. [1]", however I think it's important for Carolyn to know her earlier actions specifically were and continue to be worthy of support and respect. [1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/02/26/a-st-baldricks-appeal-from-carolyn/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/02/26/a-st-baldricks-... [2] https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014 https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014 [3] http://www.philarmh.org/ http://www.philarmh.org/
Yver 12y ago
They could have added a dedication in the acknowledgements rather than change the content of a binding specs for personal reasons.
- ceejayoz 12y ago
  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.
  - dm2 12y ago
    Is there a near-zero performance impact for checking all of the human-friendly names in CSS?
    - jeroen 12y ago
      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 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value )
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106 points by theone 12y ago

I say read http://meyerweb.com/ http://meyerweb.com/, the posts by Eric are beautiful, sad and ultimately courageous. God speed to him and his whole family.

K2h 12y ago
So touching to read the thoughts of a parent as they go through the last days of life with their very loved daughter and family. This is what family is and the joy of life through the process of losing it.

jeroen 12y ago

The original proposal was to call it beccapurple ( http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/name-663399-becca-purple-in-css4-color/225 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/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/ ).

baby 12y ago
That text is so sad... I don't why I feel so close to that guy, maybe because I bought his books and I learned CSS thanks to him.
spb 12y ago
"I have been made aware of the proposal to add the named color beccapurple (equivalent to #663399) to the CSS specification [...] I did set one condition: that if the proposal is accepted, the official name be rebeccapurple. A couple of weeks before she died, Rebecca informed us that she was about to be a big girl of six years old, and Becca was a baby name. Once she turned six, she wanted everyone (not just me) to call her Rebecca, not Becca. 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.

jimhefferon 12y ago

http://www.colorpicker.com/663399 http://www.colorpicker.com/663399

binarymax 12y ago
Color-hex has some great info - it's what DDG uses to display color info when it detects a color search: http://www.color-hex.com/color/663399 http://www.color-hex.com/color/663399

JamonSilva 12y ago

I view this as misuse; a dead fly in CSS soup.

norswap 12y ago
It will not be a burden on anyone. Show a little compassion.
freditup 12y ago
There's a CSS color named 'Gainsboro', and a color named 'NavajoWhite' that's not super close to white. 'RebeccaPurple', from a pragmatic sense, is easier to understand than those two in my opinion.
- Terretta 12y ago
  Navajo white was around long before CSS, perhaps the most used interior paint color for last 30 years of the 1900s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_white http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_white While "gainsboro" as grey is now in the dictionary, used from rugs to Kate Spade pants, Wikipedia suggests it's from X11 colors with no real world usage before that.
mongbatstar 12y ago
Terrible choice of words. I doubt this would really affect you in any meaningful way.
coldtea 12y ago
First, it's meant for humans. As a gesture. Surely you've heard of those. Second, it's not like CSS is not 50% ill-though BS legacy stuff all around, and some over-engineered crap in tons of sub-specs. A color name will hardly make any difference to anything.
wodenokoto 12y ago
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?

norswap 12y ago

It is good to remember that there are humans building software, and I personally like the idea of software paying a tribute to the people behind it. Another example: http://www.wowwiki.com/Shrine_of_the_Fallen_Warrior http://www.wowwiki.com/Shrine_of_the_Fallen_Warrior

BuildTheRobots 12y ago

Before Rebecca passed, her older sister Carolyn requested help [1] to raise money for childhood cancer research by participating in a shave-a-thon. I was slightly upset to see she only got to 90% ($10,443 of $11,500) of her goal [2] -I guess I'm hoping the internet can step up and help (I believe we can still add donations after the event). Edit: I'd point out that "The family requests charitable donations be made in Rebecca’s name to the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House [3] or the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. [1]", however I think it's important for Carolyn to know her earlier actions specifically were and continue to be worthy of support and respect. [1] http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/02/26/a-st-baldricks-appeal-from-carolyn/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/02/26/a-st-baldricks-... [2] https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014 https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014 [3] http://www.philarmh.org/ http://www.philarmh.org/

Yver 12y ago

They could have added a dedication in the acknowledgements rather than change the content of a binding specs for personal reasons.

ceejayoz 12y ago
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.
- dm2 12y ago
  Is there a near-zero performance impact for checking all of the human-friendly names in CSS?
  - jeroen 12y ago
    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 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value )
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