Posted by dorayme on 11/18/06 21:34

In article
<leo-59C2C7.01163718112006@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> wrote:

> In article
> <doraymeRidThis-45275E.19484318112006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > It appears! Of course. Mac IE is still good old MS. It is
> > "#8B4513"
>
> Since I'd never heard of such nonsense, I googled before replying to the
> OP. If you google for saddlebrown, you will get both #fa8072 *and*
> #8b4513. I really don't have much to say here anymore. I'm too far out
> of the fight and weary of the easy pickin's. Although I did one tonight
> :-)

Hey Leo, you will cheer up when the weather gets warmer over
there. Don't give up, mate.

Being an experienced Mac user, you might appreciate the method I
used: used the keyword in html/css and opened in Mac IE. Fired up
the Mac Digital Color Meter that comes with Tiger and ran the
eyedropper over it and Command Shift C. This copies the color to
the clipboard. It is very handy generally.

Side issue for Mac obsessives only: It pastes with the quotes and
no semicolon, this particular format is a damn nuisance as you
are then obliged to strip one or both the quotes and add the semi
depending on the situation. If it is an inline style use and at
the end of a string of directives, you can leave the end
quotes!). When I am using it a lot, I get to think I should look
into a macro or applescript or something to auto do this job.
Makes me wonder why it pastes in this format in the first place?
What were they thinking, that you might be using it to quote some
colour reference someone else made? Even then it it is not quite
right but getting closer.

Let me write a little excerpt of a possible play to cheer you up
Leo:

Former geeky lover writes in his autobiography:

In my long life there was but one woman that I truly loved, the
only one to pierce right through to the inner chambers of my
heart. I still feel the keen edge of her loveliness. We were set
to marry. And then I was called to war. I wrote regularly from
the trenches. Finally, I was wounded and to be sent home. I wrote
one more time. I talked about how I longed to see her, how tender
and raw was my anticipation, and about how i longed to see her
blushing cheeks - except I did not use "blushing". I used
"#F5D4FC"!

She made the decision to leave me the moment she read this. I
ended up hexing myself.

--
dorayme

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