hidden antitext

Ok, so it's not really a bug, it's just something that I found that just didn't make any sense.

I was surfing around the fight back section and have this really bad habit of highlighting text while I read...well, I highlighted a little farther than intended and found some text that must have been white (like the background), but I saw it once it was highlighted. Ran around a couple of pages to see if was there, and it was.

Anywho, the text of the nifty thing was: "Antionline has dynamically created this page for you in .08320312 seconds : 09 queries"

The intersting thing was, at the bottom of the page as normal had the correct text in the black box.

Wierd!

I see, and the problem would be?hehehe

And this is bad... how? Heh. Neat, eh? Secret messages in AO! oooooh!

it shows up constantly is there really a problem ?

Is it perhaps an intentional feature?

I see a new flame war style emerging....litterally laugh directly at new people without them having a clue...lol, that is at-least for the people that can figure out how to do it ;)

Good point Faqt, although there's not quite as much fun in flaming lame kiddies if they can't see what you've written! ;)

Do what happens when you make white text that shows up on the grey background instead of white....Kinda like korp's post??? Kinda ruins your flames.

Try highlighting everything you see. Some of the smileys (like the one pwaring posted, change their appearance. I know the small animated flying angel does also.

Not really a problem, just something wierd that I figured people would find funny.

hehehehe send secret msgs...hrs of fun for all the family >_<;

v_Ln

I just had to try and see if I was smart enough to do it...How fun is this? It's like our own little invisible ink thingie!!

Deb

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I can see the white text on the white background without highlighting it....

Matty you are a spoilsport!! :p

Deb :D

Sorry...

I'm having a bad week... I can't get my cisco switch to work, and after spending a lot of money *for me* on it and getting really excited about getting it, its now pretty much just a paperweight with LEDs...

So I figure, if I can't have networking fun, then no fun for anyone!!! MWAHAHAHAA!!!
*sigh* I'm going to bed... :(

No fair, Matty has the secret decoder ring out of the box of Cap'n Crunch.

:D

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Originally posted here by Matty_Cross
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I can see the white text on the white background without highlighting it....

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that's cause the td bgcolor isn't white...it's #f1f1f1...which is almost white....#FFFFFF...but not quite.... :p

I can read all of the "secret" messages too...especially in the post message section...where all the td bgcolors are reversed at least some of the time ...ehehe

this might be secret....but i don't think i'll post the secrets of the universe here...it's not that reliable ya know....hehehe


edit: oh hey i see terr got it right...can't see his post...hehe

Zigar: It's great to see someone else who can also do it right! :D

Hey, thats pretty bad ass

There are a few ways to easily get around it, though... Such as either clicking to quote the message, which will show it, or, in Opera, doing control-g to override the page's default background and text colors. (which is the best fast and simple alternative, aside from perhaps setting the proxomitron on the problem.)

Will the subject change as well?

Well, i'm the student here, so how do you pre-figure if your post is going to be on a cell with the f1f1f1 bg, or the d1d1d1? Sometimes the last post was on f1f1f1, but if you're slow on the keyboard or longwinded like us old guys, someone might make the "next" post and you'll be back on d1d1d1. Both the quickie post and the full feature post forms appear to have the f1f1f1 bg, but somewhere in the posting process the server alternates them for easier reading. ?

Am I the only one having this problem? Because perfectly matched text is comepltely invisible to me, even when highlighted (I can highlight the line but all I see is a block)

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Originally posted here by thesecretfire
Am I the only one having this problem? Because perfectly matched text is comepltely invisible to me, even when highlighted (I can highlight the line but all I see is a block)

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Your just special secretfire.. :)


Easy workaround, without installing any software... Good Ol' Select All..
Sorry, am I ruining people's fun again? ;)

I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem...maybe it's just an opera thing.

Secret: Read one of my posts in this thread. Carefully. :) But yes, opera shows a block, but there are easier ways to see em.

Greetings All:

Well, this isn't a bug. Someone just found a way to have a bit of fun, I guess.

I'm certainly not going to start parsing out a range of hex codes on the boards.

enjoy.

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