It looked at my interests to get this... right?

[strange_complex]

latin is love
(lingua latina amor est)
brought to you by the isLove Generator

Yes, I did add the translation in the second line myself: seemed kinda appropriate. Perhaps even nicer would have been 'latina lingua amoris est': 'Latin is the language of love'. :)

Unfortunately, though, the rather lovely purple 'rainbow' banner it generated for me doesn't display itself, and I haven't been able to see them when other people have done this meme either. I looked at the code and can't see a good reason for this: it works by creating a table of 6 cells, each containing a non-breaking space, and with the background colour in each cell set to a different shade of purple, which seems sensible to me, and did work on the isLove Generator page. Anyone know what's going on? Are my journal's colour settings over-riding it? Can anyone else see it, for that metter?

Comments

[purple-peril.livejournal.com]

I can see it. And very pretty it is too :)

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Actually, when I looked at your reply in my email account (Yahoo), I could see it too, where the email reproduced what it was that I had written and you were commenting on. So it must just be something about how the colours in my journal are set up, which is over-riding the code. I will assume that everyone else can see it, then!

[dragophelion.livejournal.com]

I can't see it either! :o(

I can't see mine either too!

oh, yes I can, but not in Netscape, only in IE!

*tuts*

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's a browser thing. I use Firefox/XP at work, and spent some time hitting refresh on people's "...is love" entries because I couldn't see the banner. When I read my friends' pages at home (Safari/OSX) there they all were, in all hues.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I don't think it is, because I can see it (with Firefox) on the 'Is Love' generator page, and also when I get notification emails in my Yahoo account from LJ, telling me people have commented on this post. Plus, when I go outside my journal and into other people's set-ups, again, I can see it. So it must be just something in the code which controls my journal's colours... which I have no idea as to the nature of, because it's just one of LJ's standard options.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I can see it in my Friends view, but not in your Journal view.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I figured as much. If I had any idea how, I'd fix this, but I don't, so I'll have to just let it go, I think!

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for finding this fix! It is now displaying just as it should, in every context I have available to me for viewing it.

*sigh of satisfaction*

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Further to this, I've now just popped into the creator's LJ (hackrabbit) to let him know about your fix, as I figured he would prefer to know that some people can't see / display the banners properly.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

And further again, hackrabbit has now replied to say he's fixed the generator so that it inserts its own hashes now. So you can sit back and enjoy a warm glow from knowing you have Made People's Lives Better! ;)

[hackrabbit.livejournal.com]

It is fixed now. :) Thanks to you all for pointing it out. Had me puzzled for a long time as well and didn't even think of it to be something as simple as a hash. :D

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

That's great - glad you were able to sort it out!