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My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by devmor »

This reminded me of one of my first web-dev projects as a teenager - the first one I showed my (recently passed) father, in which you were prompted to ask "Chuck Norris" a yes or no question with a text box, and then would present you a yes or no answer with a suitable photo of the man himself.

I did some rudimentary string parsing on submit, and if the question started with a word like "Where", "How", "Why", "Who" and a few other words that signified the question couldn't be answered with Yes or No, it would show an angry photo of his face with the caption "Your question has angered chuck!" - I think I also gave it a 1% chance to randomly roll that result regardless.

My dad absolutely loved that little project, and reminded me of how funny he found it even this year shortly before we lost him, almost 2 decades after I'd made it.

Sorry this wasn't incredibly related to your submission, but I wanted to share a happy memory you just brought back to me with it.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by fooker »

devmor wrote: post #21

This reminded me of one of my first web-dev projects as a teenager - the first one I showed my (recently passed) father, in which you were prompted to ask "Chuck Norris" a yes or no question with a text box, and then would present you a yes or no answer with a suitable photo of the man himself. I did some rudimentary string parsing on submit, and if the question started with a word like "Where", "How", "Why", "Who" a…

This reminds me of the early web. So many fun websites like this.

Now it's just silos controlled by megacorps, trying to outdo each other in competition for attention.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by aetherspawn »

esperent wrote: post #9

The included codepen is unreadable on mobile until you remove -webkit-text-stroke from them CSS. At the initial value of 0.5rem it gives a quite cool effect, as if the text has been badly redacted with a white highlighter. I initially thought that was intentional.

Works fine on iOS. It basically adds a white scribbly outline to the text which makes it easy to read the black text regardless of the background color.

It actually looks fantastic for such a low effort effect.

Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red

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Post by Ygg2 »

zahlman wrote: post #18
mukunda_johnson wrote: post #16

I'm surprised this is well defined behavior.

I already saw the Stack Overflow reference cited in the article ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911 ) many years ago, so I wasn't surprised. But I guess I can still be disappointed. Postel's Law has its limits.

Postel or Hyrum?
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