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20041224 Friday December 24, 2004
What color do you see? Computers

When is grey not grey? When you're viewing it with Internet Explorer, that's when.

The following words should match their color: blue red gray green grey

With most browsers, the word "grey" is the color grey. But when viewed with Internet Explorer on XP, I see it colored green! You might assume that the parser sees "gre" and assumes "green" but the color displayed is a lighter shade of green that what is displayed for the the word "green" (did that make sense?).

The following code was used to display the colored words above: 

<font color="blue">blue</font>
<font color="red">red</font>
<font color="gray">gray</font>
<font color="green">green</font>
<font color="grey">grey</font>

I'd be interested in hearing people's explanation for this. I did find this link that describes the same behavior, but doesn't offer any insight.
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