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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value, search for aliceblue.

Now look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_blue.

It's already happened. You can argue it's a grandfathered name from color standards predating CSS, but this process right here is how these things happen.

I think the world will survive the occasional honorarium done in this fashion. I would even be willing to wager that the world will survive a great many honoraria done in this fashion, if that's what people want; it's just an entry in a lookup table. There's no meaningful risk here; standards have always been what people can agree upon.



Yes, but that was a child of a US president, also a song, in a musical and a movie, is used on US Naval vessles, and was one of the original X11 names. And it was picked because it is the specific blue of her gown.

My heart goes out to Eric and his family; I practically learned CSS from him. But I don't think that inclusion of what seems to be an arbitrary purple makes sense.




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