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HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Post by cinitriqs »

ma2xd wrote: post #24

The tag is not supported in HTML5. Use CSS instead. Source: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp

Lol, truism, yet, for older frameworks, layers of code that are always "in front" of the css (for whatever damned reason) this might still become an issue in some form or another. That said, it should obviously show through when the "test-phase" is there to verify every line of code. nice find though, nice find.

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Post by TeMPOraL »

quarterto wrote: post #9

Wow. I haven't seen a tag in years. My thought processes loading this: • Ok, that is in fact green. • I wonder if this is related to the colour name parsing weirdness that was on HN a couple of weeks ago? • Heeeey, those aren't ASCII quotes!

> I wonder if this is related to the colour name parsing weirdness that was on HN a couple of weeks ago?

Exactly my first thought. This is one of the main reasons I frequent this site - I have tons of random tidbits like this cached in my head, so around half of the times someone introduces a problem to me, I am known to reply: "you know, X months back there was a post on Hacker News...".

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Post by taf2 »

hmottestad wrote: post #44
polymatter wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also explains why, "blue" is actually blue = "blue" = 0blue0 = 0b00e0

"blue" is actually supposed to be blue. Like "yellow" or "green" or "black" it's ”blue” that is interesting.

I prefer ”orange” to your ”blue” actually... much easier on the eyes.

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Post by sacado2 »

tjosten wrote: post #35
Svip wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe something is wrong with me, but the first thing I noticed was the quotes. In fact, from the title posted on HN.

Same here.

Me too. I thought "can't be that, too easy", so I looked for another mistake.

Re: HTML: font color=”red” becomes green

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Post by lucb1e »

sacado2 wrote: post #68
tjosten wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here.

Me too. I thought "can't be that, too easy", so I looked for another mistake.

I'd like to ask everyone saying "I saw the quotes right away," what OS do you use? Perhaps your OS uses a different font.

I've had bugs in websites where menus would be completely messed up because they didn't fit in their given space, just because the font of choice was not available on Linux and it fell back on something slightly larger.

Edit: Though in the HN title it is much clearer than in the jsfiddle, for me anyway. Might that be it?

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