Re: HEX EEEEEE COLORS WITH IE

Visitors to web sites only care that the site is viewable in the browser of their choice and has the
content they are looking for.

The only people I have ever heard of, that are concerned about pages validating, are web developers.

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"Murray" <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They are the very definition of HTML. You can follow them or not. If you follow them, your pages
will validate and you will be happy and prosperous. If you don't follow them, your teeth will get
long, and you will be an ugly person.

The community and the manufacturers have embraced them as the "standards". Call it what you will.

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"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OnG9QUzXHHA.3952@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From Merriam-Webster Online:

recommendation:

1a: the act of recommending
1b: something (as a procedure) recommended

The W3C states they provide recommendations. So far nowhere have I seen them state that they are
issuing "standards".
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"Murray" <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The recommendations are the standard.

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"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That is one way of looking at it, but that still doesn't make them standards.

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"Kevin Spencer" <unclechutney@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, Tom, it seems that all of the browser vendors are adopting a "standard" of adhering to
the recommendations.

;-)

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"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are no HTML standards, just recommendations.

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"Murray" <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This does NOT benefit the user. It confuses them. This attitude is what has gotten IE into
the hole it's in now - all this making nice stuff. There's a perfectly good set of standards
out there. They should not just ignore them willy nilly.

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"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Very simple if the browser can understand what is want or is capable of display a page when
the code is badly written this is a benefit for the user * of the browser. Browsers that do
not do this penalize users as a way of get back at developers of the site, by making the
site look bad.

* User in this case, are folks that just want to view a web site for the info it contains,
they do not care how the site was coded, etc.

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"P@tty Ayers" <pattyayersTAKETHISOUT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I guess whether IE's laissez-faire behavior is "wrong" or not could be debated, but I can't
see how you can call it "penalizing" for the other browsers to interpret code accurately
and correctly, Thomas.

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"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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IE doesn't penalized users if the code is wrong, but still readable, whereas other
browsers do.

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"Murray" <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yep - as Patty notes, IE will forgive you. Other browsers will not. IE is wrong to do
this.

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"Scott" <Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Would that make it appear on one computer and not on another - I would assume
a missing octothorpe would be an all or nothing phenomenon?


"Murray" wrote:

All hex color values MUST be prefixed with the octothorpe "#". Have you
done this?

#DDDDDD?

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"Scott" <Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a frontpage site where I've used hex colors EEEEEE and F2F2F2 to
display different shades of gray in a table. On my computer, and most
others, it displays fine. However, I have a client who apparently can't
display EEEEEE or F2F2F2 (they all look white on her screen). She can see
DDDDDD (which is almost the same), She has a ATI Radeon Xpress with Benq
monitor. Is this common? Should I use a different color, or is it simply
some problem with her setup. Thanks




























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