Nothing major, minor layout issue

**MalDON** · 04-29-2008, 10:13 AM

Re: Nothing major, minor layout issue

Originally posted by devonin

The problem with IE is of course, that they've gone the route of only allowing their proprietary programs to be used in conjunction with their builds of these browsers/operating systems etc, that if they suddenly reverted to the accepted general standards for the internet, half the websites that exist would suddenly break and be full of ridiculous errors as they were coded to comply with the IE standards their programs demanded, but which would then become incompatible.

Even IE7 and so far as I know, several early builds of IE8 aren't actually properly comaptible with CSS2, and since CSS2 is the greatest thing to happen to html web design since CSS, this obviously creates a few problems.

I'm going to cry when CSS3 comes out and IE doesn't support it.

**devonin** · 04-29-2008, 01:16 PM

Re: Nothing major, minor layout issue

Well it was solely my observation, and the only theory that made sense, but given your pointing to the greens displaying differently, I looked into it a little bit and discovered this:

Originally posted by Support.Mixcrosoft.Com

Internet Explorer May Not Display Gray Correctly
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Article ID : 161687
Last Review : February 26, 2007
Revision : 3.2
This article was previously published under Q161687
SYMPTOMS
When you view a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document using Internet Explorer, objects that are gray in color may be displayed as light green.

CAUSE
This behavior can occur if the HTML source code has the color set to gray for the following elements: <BODY>
<FONT>
<HR>
<MARQUEE>
<TABLE>

Internet Explorer incorrectly reads "grey" as "green."

What I suppose is happening is that when VBZ sees a tag "Green" it subs in a certain hex code, and when IE sees what it thinks is "Green" it subs in another certain hex code which aren't the same.

I took the time to screenshot the comparative greens you just posted, drop them into paint, and use the pippette to pull them and add them to custom colours.

My computer defines the green that was generated by using "grey" in IE as being 0 254 0 Basically "True Green" and defines the green that was generated by using the "green" tag that FFR uses as being 68 128 72

Since using colour words in color= tags just causes the system to substitute in the hex code: 00FF00 and 448048, my guess is that either VBZ as a style choice, or a manual setting by forum admins has made the default "green" not the same as a straight 00ff00 green.

This is the 00ff00 green
This is grEy grey
This is the 448048 green
This is 'green' green
Hopefully by directly using hex code in place of words, this should make both greens display as greens on all browsers.

Edit: So 448048 green doesn't actually display like "green" green in VBZ despite the fact that I generated the colour by directly pulling this text colour from the post...that is even more odd.

**sc979** · 04-29-2008, 01:32 PM

Re: Nothing major, minor layout issue

In IE, I'm getting 00E000 (0-224-0) for 'grey' and 008000 (0-128-0) for 'green.' Where did 448048 come from? FF shows the same 'green' and 808080 (128-128-128) for 'grey.'

**devonin** · 04-29-2008, 01:43 PM

Re: Nothing major, minor layout issue

I screenshot the text, pulled the colour out with the pippette, and converted the RGB it gave me into hex. That's what it came up with. Clearly these things are not corresponding to their standard codes in IE, which is kinda the point of the whole process.

Nothing major, minor layout issue

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