Weird little meme

[gridlore]

Meme grokked from fimbrethil

gridlore

(To do your own: [font color=USERNAME][b]USERNAME[/b][/font], replace the square brackets with pointy HTML brackets, and replace USERNAME with your name)

Comments

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

I take it that this meme applies some algorithm to usernames to calculate an RGB value for the result....

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

As near as I can tell, most modern browsers accept a surprisingly large number of proper names for colors (I saw a whole page of them once, including one that sticks in my memory: "Dodger Blue") and will attempt to fit any random string to the closest color/name possible.

For example, I'd guess is coming up as Cinnamon or Carmine or something like that.

[kengr]

IE may do so. Mozilla and Firefox *don't*.

Then again MS products are notorius for not bothering to parse things any farther than the programmer felt like and thus failing to adhere to standards (or even common sense!) when deciding what to do with input.

One of the more notorious examples was OE assuming that any line that started with the word "begin" followed by a space was the start of an inline uuencoded file.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well...
That's why I use hex codes for anything more complicated than "Red" or "White", and usually those too (consistency is a good habit).

[kengr]

I hadn't remembered that you *could* use names. The HTML editor I'm using doesn't do it that way. And as you say, the hex is more consistent.

Besides, since I know what the hex values *mean* it helps me figure out how to shift things.

For example, I'm considering a series of items that have to shift from CCFFFF to FFCCFF (long story) I'm I'd just sat there with color names, I'm not sure how I'd have tried to work it. At least with the hex values, I've got some ideas.