Off topic but I've wondered where colours like "hotpink" came from. Turns out hotpink was first recorded in 1889:
> Then, never was seen living woman so gratuitously ill-dressed! One might have believed she had a sworn antipathy to pure colours, or becoming “cuts.” Hot pink, mouldy blue, livid lilac, and diseased green: such were her preferences —Bentley’s Miscellany, 1849
Aniline dyes were first synthesized around 1856. The first aniline dye, known as Perkin's Mauve (Tyrian Purple), was discovered by English chemist William Henry Perkin. This breakthrough in organic chemistry paved the way for the production of a wide range of synthetic dyes, which were cheaper and more colorfast than the natural dyes that were previously used.
Initially, aniline dyes were available in a limited range of colors but by 1859 "hotpink" (magenta and solferino/fuscia) was fashionable, and others "from 1860, and in the '60s by various shades of brown, violet, blue, green, yellow and black".
Interesting, the other colours are all references to real things, I think. Blue mould; purple-faced (lilac) angry people; green of (say) a diseased limb, or as we describe someone's face when they're vomitous.
So, what is "hot pink": Hot metal before it's red hot? A blushed person's skin??
Oh no. Tangentially related, but this reminded me of That One Subreddit[1] before The Big Redesign. I don't even use Reddit, and I don't remember how did I even find about that, but I will never forget it as the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
Not pictured in the screenshot: an equally ugly mouse cursor in the shape of a pixelated sock.
I won't say the name because I don't even want to send traffic of any kind to Reddit, but I can confirm The Internet Archive has pages from before The Big Redesign.
The linked vercel app is nice and accessible in comparison.
LOL, yeah, good point. I think most of us are also exposed to a lot less intentional jank these days. Used to be a whole somewhat-popular genre of website. Lack of exposure could lead to reduced immunity.
May be more directly related to the CPU/etc load and HW age rather than software. If the phone's battery is older, it may not be able to keep up with the bursty power draw, which can cause the phone to crash.
Anyone else have iOS Safari crash so hard on this it temporarily locks up your phone? To the point that open Safari again immediately crashes and I had to frantically spam the tab closed in order to recover my ability to browse the web.
that it only crashed Safari is surprising...something this cursed likely has the power to end marriages, kill house pets and void the very fabric of reality.
I understand that sentiment, but this as is if your committee was a bunch of pseudonymous script kiddies. Is any org that dysfunctional? Please share a story if so.
I found this really fun to learn some more CSS. I am currently battling in the comments. Come join!
You can do quite a bit of tracking with CSS by conditionally loading third party resources. Tracking pixels, loading different images on hover, active, focus, etc can effectively track users
The correct solution is enable a strict Content Security Policy (CSP) - so even when a user compromises your website with XSS/CSS they cannot extract any data they obtain. Note: this website has not configured a Content Security Policy :(
I wonder how big the CSS file is. It stands to reason that the longer the site is up the longer the CSS file gets and the longer it takes to load the page. I wouldn't be surprised if the size of the CSS file was ludicrous at this point.
I created a video where any comment that was valid CSS would be added to the site without moderation.
I suggest that you have a look at the site. Its a testament to programming joy.
Early on someone posted css that added a trollface that would zoom across the site. I realized that allowing images inside the css was simply to dangerous so whenever an image was included in the css i would have to approve the css before it being applied to the site.
This video explains how the technical setup was achieved.
Interesting idea, but if you didn't filter the elements with URLs, you're creating a CSS injection attack that enables people who visit the website to work as bots in a botnet and attack some url.
> Then, never was seen living woman so gratuitously ill-dressed! One might have believed she had a sworn antipathy to pure colours, or becoming “cuts.” Hot pink, mouldy blue, livid lilac, and diseased green: such were her preferences —Bentley’s Miscellany, 1849
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pink-fuschia-t...