Perhaps you've heard of the euphemism "sanitary engineer," meaning [i]garbageman". Here are some the submissions to a newspaper contest asking readers to come up with fancy job titles. (In each case the ordinary name follows in white type, invisible until you paint over it with your cursor.)
CJ is wondering (as am I) about the way thayt alternate posts have backgronds of white and grey. White Ink shows up on the grey ones and grey ink shows up on the white ones. His test post for example clearly shows the words "test test" in white against the grey background.)
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kalleh: Isn't every other background gray or white? In other words, this background will be white.
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Yes. But there are two problems with that. One is that if a post is deleted or someone else posts while you are composing your words then you end up on the opposite colour to the one you intended. The other is that you can't post invisibly on the grey ones because that colour ink isn't available.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
I think that some members with older browsers may not see the alternate grey/white backgrounds to the posts. Whilst I can see them from home, I am at work using MS Internet Explorer 5.5 and all the backgrounds appear white.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
All of which seems to prove that the ability to "hide" text has nothing to do with ink color. The question remains, however, how does one accomplish the "special effects" razzmatazz used in the first posts of this thread??
