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Wow. I haven't seen a <font> tag in years. My thought processes loading this: • Ok, that is in fact green. • I wonder if this is related to the colour name pa
by quarterto 13y ago
Wow. I haven't seen a <font> 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!
- Svip 13y agoMaybe something is wrong with me, but the first thing I noticed was the quotes. In fact, from the title posted on HN.
- tjosten 13y agoSame here.
- sacado2 13y agoMe too. I thought "can't be that, too easy", so I looked for another mistake.
- lucb1e 13y agoI'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?
- tylerlh 13y agoI'm using Chrome on OSX and the color value was highlighted red in the source, so I immediately looked at that.
- jaredmcateer 13y agoChrome on Windows and Linux, on HN and jsFiddle, the quotes were very obvious to me.
- OGC 13y ago_with_ ascii quotes, it works (it's red)
- gprasanth 13y agoGreen - with ascii quotes and an invisible seperator. http://jsfiddle.net/WGSNX/264/ http://jsfiddle.net/WGSNX/264/
- tempestn 13y agoMaybe it's just late at night, but how does this work? I understand the words "invisible separator", but for lack of better phrasing, I don't see an invisible separator.
- surreal 13y agoBetween the r and the e there is a U+2063 "invisible separator"
- tempestn 13y agoAhh, thanks, that's the actual name of the character! 3am and I've already learned something new for the day.
- DanBC 13y agoBetween the R and E of red there's some extra character. My font shows it as a missing character box. I'm guessing that it just breaks the 'red' into a value which is interpreted as whatever the hex is. (See the chuck norris links posted in this thread).
- im3w1l 13y agoRed text in source code http://jsfiddle.net/A6TQK/ http://jsfiddle.net/A6TQK/
- kmfrk 13y agoWow. I haven't seen a <font> tag in years You should check out the source code for HN more often. :)
- tghw 13y agoPersonally, I try to avoid looking at it. It reminds me too much of late 90's Geocities HTML.
- kmfrk 13y ago<blink>But pg made it!</blink>
- georgestephanis 13y ago<marquee>Awesome sauce!</marquee>
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoI made stuff with font tags too ... in 1995.
- riffraff 13y agoI think I still did, in an html email, recently :(
- TeMPOraL 13y ago> 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...".
- matponta 13y agoHad exactly the same Heeeey moment :)