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by vladde 91 days ago
one of my favorite stack overflow questions: Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911

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I came to the conclusion a long time ago that early browser developers must have really been on quite a lot of drugs.
No, it was just there were no PM filters.
And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days. — from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10
Some recent discussion on that one a couple Advents ago:

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/20/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42468318)