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Basically, the browser thinks it's looking at a malformed hex number and strips the invalid chars, in this case turning “red” into 00ED0. This is padded with 0s until it's divisible by 3, giving 00ED00.
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I don't know why is considering that as a RGB notation instead of the color red, but following this progression seems correct: http://jsfiddle.net/7ACky/2/ red => #red => #0ed => #ed => #ed0 => #eedd00 Could be this? EDIT: That was wrong: red => #red => #0ed => #00ed00 seems the correct one.
I remember that HTML had named colors, like "goldenrod" and "peachpuff". Or was that just css?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... = ”red” = 0red0 (" is not ascii so make 0) = 00ed0 (r is not hex so make 0) = 00ed00 (pad)
Edit: Heh
Wot? Didn't that use to work? I remember that HTML had named colors, like "goldenrod" and "peachpuff". Or was that just css?
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