The moment I've been waiting for: for a topic on HN to devolve into Barrens chat. This is going to be a great day. Zug zug.
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#92Color names are a strange thing, it is like given names to numbers. I made a game out of it [0]. [0] https://colorguesser.com/
> How is the score calculated? Oh man, this was harder than I thought.
Color is such a deceptively dangerous rabbit hole. A few months ago I entered a game jam intending to make a small pokemon-like where you collect colors rather than creatures. E.g. instead of fire>grass>water it would be red>green>blue, with randomly generated colors of any shade and about half a dozen 'types'. Trying to figure out the math of that nerd sniped me for a couple weeks, didn't even get started on the rest of the game before the jam ended.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#93This means we can treat "o" as "0" (zero) because it gets automatically substituted like this anyway. E.g.: coffee actually becomes: #c0ffee Same with baobab (#ba0bab), decode (#dec0de), etc.
Interesting. There are also differences between HTML and CSS: #fe11a710 becomes a sort of red in HTML, but a mostly transparent pink in CSS (for 8 digits hex numbers, the last two encode the alpha value).
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Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#94The moment I've been waiting for: for a topic on HN to devolve into Barrens chat. This is going to be a great day. Zug zug.
I’d prefer if the discussion was about how homophobic chuck Norris is.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#95This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th... Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. EDIT: I…
> Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work.
It's all down to a lack of viable micropayment infrastructure. See also: ad tech.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Postel. This is about me thinking it was a bad idea to make it work in the first place.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#97>I've heard people quip that browsers should be less forgiving and enforce perfection. That allowing jank makes the web somehow 'bad'. Considering all the misery inflicted by computer crime that's enabled by the forgiving attitude, I 100% agree. And given the choice between "you can still visit the Space Jam website[0]" or "never worry about drive-by ransomware again", I'm pretty sure I'd be with the majority in choo…
It's a false choice in any case. Web browsers can support backward compatibility and at the same time offer a strict mode that benefits correctness and performance. Some real opportunities were missed to clean up JS semantics when Modules got introduced, for instance.
And they did with XHTML, but unfortunately it didn't catch on.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe it failed entirely for the "other reasons", and this particular part of its design was actually right.
Well at the time, I do know that the vast majority of complaints I heard from colleagues was that it breaks too easily and wouldn't render after that.
I cant remember but I had a list of unsolvable problems that just ruled it out. I think in one instance I wanted to populate a form after it failed validation but couldn't correctly escape the value attributes.
I believe the biggest design flaw is that the data is the first document it loads. It doesn't work like that. The application should load first, then the ui logic, then the data and then you should get to load other data sets. Swap them, filter, join, merge etc You would get powerful applications with very little effort.
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#99This article appears to be recycling content from a 13 year old top stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th... Truly any interesting thing ever created on the internet will be exploited for marketing until the end of time. Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. EDIT: I…
> Unfortunate that old redditors and other forum contributors were not able to capture the millions of dollars of value created from their work. It's all down to a lack of viable micropayment infrastructure. See also: ad tech.
I think a lot of forum posters wouldn't want to charge micro payments for it though?
Re: My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
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