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An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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There you go: https://psuter.net/images/z-index-fig-1-alt-preview.png

Has anyone tried calling the phone number used for a z-index in this chart? Seems like a very specific number to be used that many times. It would be amazing if the css was #ForAGoodTimeCall { z-index: 2147483647 }

It's probably not a phone number. It's the max value of a 32 bit signed integer.

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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> At rank 39, we have 8675309, which I personally didn’t recognize as being particularly noteworthy. However, with over half a million collected uses, it clearly is meaningful to many. Is this value there due to some stock value in some well used piece of software such as a cookie notice plugin for Wordpress? I had not realised this was a '42' grade special number before and I wonder how it is so popular in CSS.

Sing it. It's Jenny's phone number - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

e: wiki

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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> At rank 39, we have 8675309, which I personally didn’t recognize as being particularly noteworthy. However, with over half a million collected uses, it clearly is meaningful to many. Is this value there due to some stock value in some well used piece of software such as a cookie notice plugin for Wordpress? I had not realised this was a '42' grade special number before and I wonder how it is so popular in CSS.

8675309 Pinterest's save button: https://devrant.com/rants/1329676/pinterests-save-button-has...

42: H2G2: The answer to life, the universe, and everything

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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> At rank 39, we have 8675309, which I personally didn’t recognize as being particularly noteworthy. However, with over half a million collected uses, it clearly is meaningful to many. Is this value there due to some stock value in some well used piece of software such as a cookie notice plugin for Wordpress? I had not realised this was a '42' grade special number before and I wonder how it is so popular in CSS.

It's a reference to Jenny's Song, by Tommy Tutone. 867-5309 is Jenny's phone number in the song.

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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> At rank 39, we have 8675309, which I personally didn’t recognize as being particularly noteworthy. However, with over half a million collected uses, it clearly is meaningful to many. Is this value there due to some stock value in some well used piece of software such as a cookie notice plugin for Wordpress? I had not realised this was a '42' grade special number before and I wonder how it is so popular in CSS.

https://youtu.be/6WTdTwcmxyo

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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post #24

> At rank 39, we have 8675309, which I personally didn’t recognize as being particularly noteworthy. However, with over half a million collected uses, it clearly is meaningful to many. Is this value there due to some stock value in some well used piece of software such as a cookie notice plugin for Wordpress? I had not realised this was a '42' grade special number before and I wonder how it is so popular in CSS.

8675309 Pinterest's save button: https://devrant.com/rants/1329676/pinterests-save-button-has... 42: H2G2: The answer to life, the universe, and everything

Thank you. So it is Pinterest and their CSS that ends up on every website. I bet nobody else is using that special number and that the song is not as well known as some would have you believe!

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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post #13
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although the wording is ambiguous he probably (correctly) meant that the number is 1242 9's long: 999999... and not 9^1242 or 1242 x 9

Oh, I did not understand this way, but you are indeed correct. My bad.

This is why I care so much about grammar. Author wrote "1242 times the number 9" but meant "the number 9 1242 times". A very minor difference, just the order of the words, but such a change in meaning!

Re: An informal survey of z-index values found in the wild

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> At rank 39, we have 8675309, which I personally didn’t recognize as being particularly noteworthy. However, with over half a million collected uses, it clearly is meaningful to many. Is this value there due to some stock value in some well used piece of software such as a cookie notice plugin for Wordpress? I had not realised this was a '42' grade special number before and I wonder how it is so popular in CSS.

Sing it. It's Jenny's phone number - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny e: wiki

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