{"id":308,"date":"2006-09-30T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T04:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/09\/30\/it-aint-easy-seeing-green\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T01:32:10","slug":"it-aint-easy-seeing-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/09\/30\/it-aint-easy-seeing-green\/","title":{"rendered":"It ain’t easy seeing green…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little puzzle for web-developers.<\/p>\n\n\n
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
\nIn a beautiful pea-green boat.<\/td>\n		The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to pee
\nIn a beautiful sea-green boat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Can you guess which one is which?<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a clue: No, it’s the other way around!<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Was it originally Netscape who defined these colours? Was it already defined in X windows? Earlier?<\/div>\n

Here’s the whole Sea Green list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sea Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dark Sea Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Medium Sea Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light Sea Green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little puzzle for web-developers.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25,34],"tags":[272,81,95],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology","category-software-development","tag-colours","tag-python","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}