Oh, and...

[j4]

I selected a bunch of words at random and made them go pretty colours!

toaster
ophthalmic
knob
curious
sigma
fnord

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Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

[j4.livejournal.com]

They've all come out in black here... I think you may have outdone me in the irony stakes.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if they would work in an actual entry, I just picked the first words to come to mind. :-)

[imc.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if they would work in an actual entry

We've done this…

If you are a Mozilla and Xcolibur user then no, they won't. The entry view in Xcolibur contains a DOCTYPE which switches Mozilla into strict mode, which means you have to use either one of the 16 defined colour names or a hex triplet.

No, we haven't

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I'm not one of them there Mozilla users and you're answering a question that was never asked (or something). All I meant was that I had no idea if those words would result in anything if I put them into my LJ as an entry as the sort-of-meme demanded. Since yesterday's experiment seems to prove that a lot of words do come out coloured in my particular setup, I will just have to try it and see, won't I?

Re: No, we haven't

[j4.livejournal.com]

as the sort-of-meme demanded

It wasn't a meme at all! It was a piss-take of the current craze for "I put all the names of my friends in funny colours"! And boy, did it backfire. :-}

Re: No, we haven't

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, I knew it wasn't a real one. Your leet skills bit gave that away. That's why I put sort-of and why I didn't actually obey it. (And why my words aren't exactly meaningful or sensible either.) I apologise for my husband's turning this into a browser rant. :-)

[imc.livejournal.com]

I'm not one of them there Mozilla users

Netscape == Mozilla

All I meant was that I had no idea if those words would result in anything if I put them into my LJ as an entry

Sorry, brain the wrong way round. What I meant to say was `We've done this. Yes they will, because LJ's recent-entries view does not contain a DOCTYPE which switches Mozilla into strict mode.'

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have IE on this machine too, you know (spit). And for these coloured entries have been using it on and off to see if it makes a difference. Anyway, you're dissecting a joke too much. Stop it.

[k425.livejournal.com]

They were coloured here.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

[nja.livejournal.com]

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

OK. That actually works, as a piece of evocation, rather than being a bunch of pretty colours. You get a prize, you soppy, poetic, beardy.

[nja.livejournal.com]

I wrote it myself, too!

I hope the trustees of the estate of T S Eliot are not reading this.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

This is the first of many people on my friends list doing this that's actually shown up right in Konqueror. What are you doing differently ?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Er, I'm explicitly specifying web-safe colo(u)rs in valid HTML. Not just putting random words, people's names, slices of toast etc. in the color= attribute.

I think my joke misfired. :-/

[darcydodo]

Ooh, I didn't try putting a slice of toast in!

*runs off to test this out*

Damn it, now there're crumbs in my keyboard. And it didn't work.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Try putting birds in your keyboard, to eat the crumbs?

[darcydodo]

Ooh, ooh, good plan.

[imc.livejournal.com]

Not many people can spell .

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Damn.
Now I'm not sure if I can't or you can't.

[imc.livejournal.com]

You could always try a dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ophthalmic)…

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Too easy!
We have a selection at home, including one that's too heavy to life even split into two volumes.
Last thing we checked was 'farrow' to see if it derives from some old word for ickle babby piglit (it does).

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Well, let's try it with this famous quote from Chomsky;

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

*p|-|34r5*

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

The newsletter from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics is delivered in html and text. Some people complained about not being able to read the colours in the html version of the last one. Partly a Microsoft thing, I think, and maybe partly a how-many-colours-does-your-screen-have thing - he had shades of blue for both fore and back. Looked nice on my screen, probably awful on bog-standard VGA.