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What color do you see? I never realized that the bar changes color.
by avgarrison 14y ago
What color do you see? I never realized that the bar changes color.
- jessaustin 14y agoWith sufficient karma (trying to remember: was it 300? 400?), you can set the color you prefer.
- nym 14y agoMine is #bada55.
- itcmcgrath 14y agoIf people want more like that, you can find them at http://hexu.al/ http://hexu.al/
- hfsktr 14y agoThat is awesome. I am so glad I made it this far down the comments to see this link. I know it sounds sarcastic with so much enthusiasm but it isn't. This is the kind of stuff that I like to find. Better when it comes from HN.
- cpeterso 14y agoWhy does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-thi...
- Yhippa 14y agoInteresting, I did not know that. Anybody know why the bar is defaulted to that shade of orange (#FF6600) in the first place?
- deadairspace 14y agoWhy not?
- jychang 14y agoBecause YC.
- minopret 14y agoI like the question. Until and unless the person who chose it wishes to answer, here's my attempt at a more-than-complete answer. I guess orange may be chosen as a rather eye-catching color. A reddish orange may be chosen to be a bit more tasteful or distinctive. The choice of RGB component values may originate in an older practice in web design called web-safe colors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors). It uses the observation that 33 hexadecimal (let's write 0x33) evenly divides the range of an HTML red-green-blue color component: 0x00, 0x33, 0x66, 0x99, 0xCC, 0xFF. Choosing each of the three color components from among these six values yielded 6^3 = 216 colors, a palette that would fit into a low-end graphics adapter's table of 256 colors with room left over for system-defined colors. Those who have studied Mersenne primes may recall that it is sufficient to observe that 8 is a composite number in order to prove that 0xFF = 0x100 - 1 = 2^8 - 1 is a composite number. And we compute that 2^8 - 1 = 255 which ends in 5, so it's obviously divisible by 5, the quotient being 51 = 0x33.
- jedberg 14y agoIt's Paul's favorite color. It's also the color of the walls at YC.
- kingnothing 14y agoInteresting. I never even noticed the option to change it.
- theyare 14y agohtml > body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td { background-color: #000; } html > body > center > table > tbody > tr:first-child > td * { color: #ff6600; }
- msg 14y ago66CC66