May I remind y'all that you are continuing to bikeshed. It's not that it
doesn't matter, it's that a very small number of people care very very
much. Speaking of a disaster that's already happening, if y'all don't move
this conversation to wikicolors-yellow-blue-green-red-L(a)lists.wikimedia.org,
I'm unsubscribing.
Speaking of usability, why is this mailing list called Wiki Tech List Lists
Wiki Media org? Surely there's some extra duplicate redundancy there there?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Erwin Dokter <erwin(a)darcoury.nl> wrote:
Ryan wrote:
Green has a meaning of "Go" or of "this is ok" in many cultures.
Making either side green gives a bias to the diff. Similarly with red.
Red means "Stop" or "this is not ok". Many people associate red with
blood, and green with nature.
When the French created the new color scheme, they assigned no meaning to
the colors, and neither should we. You can associate any meaning with any
color and find fault with any one of them... Yellow means "hate" in other
cultures. Blue means "move over, police!". The possibilities are endless.
Let's just make everything gray... Oh no, grey depresses me...
Fact is, red/green is good for inline diffs, but any other color is fair
game for side-by-side diffs.
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Erwin Dokter
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