Bug 133804 - Add rebeccapurple to CSS named color list
Summary: Add rebeccapurple to CSS named color list
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Simon Fraser (smfr)
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-06-12 10:02 PDT by Theresa O'Connor
Modified: 2014-06-19 16:31 PDT (History)
14 users (show)

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Attachments
Patch (5.58 KB, patch)
2014-06-12 11:23 PDT, Simon Fraser (smfr)
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
Patch (7.13 KB, patch)
2014-06-18 16:39 PDT, Simon Fraser (smfr)
no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff

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Description Theresa O'Connor 2014-06-12 10:02:46 PDT
It's #663399.
Comment 1 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2014-06-12 11:23:17 PDT
Created attachment 232967 [details]
Patch
Comment 2 Jer Noble 2014-06-12 12:27:24 PDT
Comment on attachment 232967 [details]
Patch

Looks like the mac-wk2 test failures are spurious video ones, and the efl-wk2 EWS is a random compiler crash. r=me.
Comment 3 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2014-06-12 13:09:08 PDT
Holding off from committing until we have consensus from other vendors etc.
Comment 4 Mat Marquis 2014-06-12 15:20:48 PDT
Thanks so much for being the first ones to get an issue and patch ready. There’s now a patch waiting to land on the Mozilla side:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024642

As stated in the comments on the above issue: we’d like to hold off on shipping this anywhere until we hear back from Eric, for obvious reasons. This includes formal proposal to the CSSWG, which I believe Blink is waiting on.

The question is already out, so no need for anyone to ping him. We’ll give the word here.

Thanks again, everyone.
Comment 5 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2014-06-18 15:41:40 PDT
Comment on attachment 232967 [details]
Patch

Need to fix the name.
Comment 6 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2014-06-18 16:39:38 PDT
Created attachment 233337 [details]
Patch
Comment 7 WebKit Commit Bot 2014-06-18 17:22:10 PDT
Comment on attachment 233337 [details]
Patch

Clearing flags on attachment: 233337

Committed r170136: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/170136>
Comment 8 WebKit Commit Bot 2014-06-18 17:22:19 PDT
All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.
Comment 9 Mathias Bynens 2014-06-19 01:42:00 PDT
(In reply to comment #5)
> (From update of attachment 232967 [details])
> Need to fix the name.

Why the change from `beccapurple` to `rebeccapurple`? Was this discussed anywhere public? Just curious.
Comment 10 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2014-06-19 08:44:16 PDT
Eric Meyer requested the name be "rebeccapurple", per Rebecca's own name preferences.
Comment 11 Concerned WebDev 2014-06-19 16:12:02 PDT
I'm a bit concerned that this "bug" was resolved without any actual technical merit. Can someone point to other CSS named colors where we've memorialized the dead children of influential members in the CSS community? (Before you say AliceBlue, that did not originate in CSS and it was for a presidents daughter and referenced in plays in 1919). This sets a very bad precedent, and I'm shocked that webkit has merged this in without seeking community approval or without it being an actual standard. 

The community is not as _for_ it as you might believe. I refer you to:

https://news.layervault.com/stories/25847-name-663399-beccapurple-in-css4-color

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886296

and it's also being discussed in other bug trackers about how inappropriate it is:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024642



This is not a criticism of Eric Meyer, his daughter, or anyone else. This just requires a bit more reading into than what has been performed here.
Comment 12 Tab Atkins 2014-06-19 16:17:20 PDT
(In reply to comment #11)
> This sets a very bad precedent, 

The number of people who have been instrumental in the history of CSS and have adorable children is luckily very small.  Your slippery slope argument is invalid.
Comment 13 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2014-06-19 16:22:09 PDT
Please see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Jun/0257.html
Comment 14 Concerned WebDev 2014-06-19 16:31:28 PDT
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > This sets a very bad precedent, 
> 
> The number of people who have been instrumental in the history of CSS and have adorable children is luckily very small.  Your slippery slope argument is invalid.

No slippery slope fallacy was made. I think you should check the definition. Calling something a bad precedent does not automatically invoke some slippery slope fallacy.