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@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@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.
-- Erwin Dokter
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