OddThinking

Here’s a little puzzle for web-developers.

I have two pieces of sample text above. One is written in Dark Sea Green, on a Sea Green background. The other is written in Sea Green, on a Dark Sea Green background.

Can you guess which one is which?

I’ll give you a clue: No, it’s the other way around!

Netscape defined a number of colour names that, although not standard, are accepted by a number of browsers. Their definitions of some of the colours leave me rather confused.

Here’s the whole Sea Green list:

By the way, before I get abused, I wasn’t creating non-standard web-pages when this tripped me up. I was using the Python Imaging Library, which shares the same colour names.