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den ([personal profile] den) wrote2004-05-19 09:34 am

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< font color= (your name) >< b > (your name) < /b >< /font >

dewhitton
den
batty
battyden

how odd.

[identity profile] targaff.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[livejournal.com profile] baxil mentioned this a long while ago, together with an explanation. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was, but there's a good reason for it, apparently.

[identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the browser's best shot at parsing non-standard font color codes - when you put your name or any other text between those tags, the browser expects to see a code.

See, you can do it with non-name words, too:








It works in Explorer and old Netscape, but not so well in Mozilla and not at all, from what I understand, in Opera. (If you get "huh?" comments from people, they probably have a standards-compliant browser.)

[identity profile] ngarewyrd.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
it does work in opera.

unsuprisingly, I come out a nice shade of green



See? =8)
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[personal profile] jamesb 2004-05-18 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
But you all come out in plain old black in both Mozilla and Firefox.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Firefox shows the colours on my journal page, but on my friends list and in the comments it shows up black.

It's not enough to make me stop preferring Firefox over IE.

[identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope, I see you black. (Mozilla 1.3 - it's ... quirky ... in rendering oddball code.
tephra: Photo portrait of a doll with shaggy, dark orange and copper hair, wearing a pink slouchy hat and sky blue glasses. (Default)

[personal profile] tephra 2004-05-18 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG, that icon is so *ky00te!*

Now that I've got that out of my system... Wow, Targaff, that's a name I haven't seen in years. :)

Now the obligatory "let's see what color my name is" thing:

tephra
teph
tephra_adularia

[identity profile] hedgegoth.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
teph!

[identity profile] targaff.livejournal.com 2004-05-19 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm afraid I still exist. Hi there ;)

The icon was done for me a long time ago by Skylara, after she did a pencil sketch of it.

[identity profile] jbadger.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I am one of those "huh?" browers. Umm I mean I use one.
Mozilla

[identity profile] trede.livejournal.com 2004-05-18 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)