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

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.

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.

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

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.

Before you follow up with a rant on being downvoted for merely having a different opinion: I only speak for myself but I don't mind you saying you're opposed to this proposal. Sure, it makes me not like you but if I downvoted everyone I didn't like it'd be a full-time job.

The reason (at least, for me) is the rather insensitive way in which you expressed your opinion. Take a few steps back and reconsider what you wrote on what is essentially a thread about a father losing his daughter.

Your patience and civility are appreciated, but the GP was way beyond the pale. We've banned that account as a troll (at least until we get a promise that this won't happen again).

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?

If share a cookie with a friend, you're that person who demands I share with everyone within earshot, aren't you?

Just take it for what it is. It's one act of kindness. Buying a sandwich for a homeless person doesn't mean every homeless person is now entitled to a sandwich from you.

> if we need to pay tribute in the form of specs

RFC 2468 - "I remember IANA". Vint Cerf did it for Jon Postel. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt

(And the number is a nice touch too)

Where will it end? Think about the future! This will lead to so much abuse. /s

Terrible choice of words.

I doubt this would really affect you in any meaningful way.

It will not be a burden on anyone. Show a little compassion.

Leaving aside the context of the name, how is this different from adding another name of any other color to the CSS specification?

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