CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

> Update 22 Jun 14: the proposal was approved by the CSS WG and added to the CSS4 Colors module. Patches to web browsers have already happened in nightly builds. (I’m just now catching up on this after the unexpected death of Kat’s father early Saturday morning.)

Mr. Meyer certainly had a rough 2014.

Kudos to him and all his CSS contributions over the years. I hope he has been able to find some solace since then.

I would say he hasn't, considering a few months ago he wrote "A Decade Later, A Decade Lost" https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2024/06/07/a-decade-later...

And I can't blame him. They say no parent should see their child die, and that's certainly true; but especially no parent should see their 6 year old child die of brain cancer. Humans are not built to withstand that.

> Humans are not built to withstand that.

What's that supposed to mean? Humans grew up being slaughtered by wild animals. Safe housing is an extremely recent invention and many humans still don't have it.

In case it needs stating, watching your child die in increasingly agonising pain over a year while your glimmer of hope for their survival dimishes every single day, with moments of false dawn, is a very different experience to watching your child being killed by a wild animal.

As for your imaginary hunter gatherer:

1) Yes I'm sure when a child died in agony over a prolonged period of time in hunter gatherer societies, their family was also traumatised.

2) The modern nuclear family has changed our sense of emotional attachment to our children. Whether that's good or bad is a separate discussion, but our relationship with our children is different to what it was 500 years ago, let alone 5,000 years ago.