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. > > -- > Erwin Dokter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
