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 [email protected],
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 <[email protected]> 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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