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Adding 'rebeccapurple' color to CSS Color Level 4

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The original proposal was to call it beccapurple ( 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/ ).

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.

"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.

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

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

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.

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-...

[2] https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/mypage/663064/2014

[3] http://www.philarmh.org/

http://www.colorpicker.com/663399

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

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

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.

Is there a near-zero performance impact for checking all of the human-friendly names in CSS?

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 )

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