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Interesting.....very interesting....(insert picture of Mr. Burns - from the Simpsons - tapping his fingers against each other)

Posted by Hiran on November 18, 2001 at 12:42 AM

> "color=gre"
> "color=grey"
> "color=gray"
> "color=grea"
> "color=greb"
> "color=grec"
> "color=gred"
> "color=gree"
> "color=gref"
> "color=greg"
> "color=greh"

So apparently, the three letter gre aren't recognised, but any word that's longer than three letters and starts with gre is recognised as light green. I wonder if this was a blunder on the guys who came up w/ the specs for HTML or if there are actually people hired by these guys to come up w/ kinks like this that they can throw into the language to mess with people's minds. (It's diabolically genuis I say!!!!!!)
Hiran