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> I've heard people quip that browsers should be less forgiving and enforce perfection. That allowing jank makes the web somehow 'bad'. I think a perfect web would be a boring web. I certainly wouldn't be here writing were it 'perfect'. It's about making the web work, no matter what we throw at it, and I wouldn't have it any other way. It's probably less about "perfection" than precluding non-conformance to a standar…
> I've heard people quip that browsers should be less forgiving and enforce perfection. That allowing jank makes the web somehow 'bad'. I think a perfect web would be a boring web. I certainly wouldn't be here writing were it 'perfect'. It's about making the web work, no matter what we throw at it, and I wouldn't have it any other way. It's probably less about "perfection" than precluding non-conformance to a standar…
XHTML tried this approach, but it failed for this and other reasons.
It’s amusing that some of the other (English) word colors match what one would consider suitable or kinda close to those words. crap #c0a000 watermelon #a00e00 plant #00a000 sonic #0000c0 jade #0ade00 bloodily #b00d00 grass #00a000 midnight #0d00000 Has anyone created a more comprehensive list of such (unexpected) color words for English and other languages?
This is an old favorite of mine: http://bada55.io/
Rude.
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I do appreciate all of what you’ve said but the author of this piece is actually mistaken. The browser isn’t actually processing the string “chucknorris” and forgiving incorrectly provided hex codes, which is a common misconception. What actually happens within the rendering pipeline is that the full literal string (in this case, “chucknorris”) is parsed, and the browser attempts to render the tag in the colour of bl…
And, inevitably, the next generation [0] comes along and use the colour without having any idea of who Chuck Norris even was. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461264
Color names are a strange thing, it is like given names to numbers. I made a game out of it [0]. [0] https://colorguesser.com/
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XHTML tried this approach, but it failed for this and other reasons.
Or maybe it failed entirely for the "other reasons", and this particular part of its design was actually right.
