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Screen color oddity
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Mods, I think this is hardware, not Excel, related, but please move it if appropriate. Can somebody please explain this oddity ? I've always thought that color was on a pixel by pixel basis, so why does the black text shade its entire cell? This is reproducible. Thanks.
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Re: Screen color oddity
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I would need to see the HTML source code, but I suspect it is intentional on the part of the site developer, or it may be a glitch in the rendering engine.
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Re: Screen color oddity
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It's an Excel spreadsheet, not a website. Edit: I just overpainted the cells that displayed the oddity, and their color was corrected. Hmmm... And it's no longer reproducible! I guess it was an Excel glitch that got fixed up somewhere along the way.
Last edited by artie505; 10/27/16 03:09 PM.
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Re: Screen color oddity
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It's an Excel spreadsheet, not a website. :dopeslap: (there really needs to be a dopeslap emoji) I flat overlooked you had said it was an Excel spreadsheet. As far as I am concerned that would have been explanation enough. I have seen some of Microsoft's code and coding practices and neither was pretty.
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:dopeslap: (there really needs to be a dopeslap emoji) I flat overlooked you had said it was an Excel spreadsheet. Well ...? It's in your ballpark. Do it! (Create it and give it to the world.) We's a-waitin'.
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Actually emojis are defined in an international standard and new ones have to be approved by a committee. Creating a dopeslap Emoji image would be no problem, proving to the committee it is a needed addition, and getting them to accept my rendition would be a HUGE undertaking that can take years, and of course then you would have to get the character into the character sets.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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Actually emojis are defined in an international standard and new ones have to be approved by a committee. Creating a dopeslap Emoji image would be no problem, proving to the committee it is a needed addition, and getting them to accept my rendition would be a HUGE undertaking that can take years, and of course then you would have to get the character into the character sets. Hard to understand, especially when a <fresh pile of crap> emoji made the cut.
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Hard to understand, especially when a <fresh pile of crap> emoji made the cut. Hopefully to end this off topic conversation, remember the old conundrum, " One man's trash is a committee's treasure" or words to that effect. 🙄
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Guess what I found among the new emoji in iOS 10.2 beta on my iPad and MacOS 10.1.2 beta? Not just a "dopeslap" but a male dopeslap (🤦ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸) and a female dopeslap (🤦â€â™€ï¸) And each is available in a choice of six skin tones. The emoji selector is much larger on my iPad Pro so the emoji are much easier to differentiate.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
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Guess what I found among the new emoji in iOS 10.2 beta on my iPad and MacOS 10.1.2 beta? Not just a "dopeslap" but a male dopeslap (🤦ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸) and a female dopeslap (🤦â€â™€ï¸) And each is available in a choice of six skin tones. The emoji selector is much larger on my iPad Pro so the emoji are much easier to differentiate. Sumthin's wrong somewhere!
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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