Although I rarely read my friends’ pages directly, relying on the wonder of the Friends Page instead, I notice some things when I peruse new potential “friends” on LJ.
Here’s one: if you go to ‘s journal using Netscape or MSIE, it looks just fine. If you go there with Opera, you get black text on a dark blue background, rendering the text invisible. My quest: discover the source of this discrepency. And, thanks to the wonder of the CSS Validator over at the WWW Consortium, I have. Apparently, the wonderful Klee has mistyped a color in her setup, rendering “C02768” as “CO2768″ instead. While this is an illegal color, I’m amazed at the ability of the two mainstream browsers to actually display the desired (amazingly bright) pink shade without error. Things that make you go hmmm…