Is there any way to permanently disable the WYSIWYG editor?

[SteelCurtain]

I pretty much always use the quick reply box, so it's never an issue for me. Even quoting, I'll use the quote function rather than reply.

[rado84]

unless it's for color, no one know all those goddamned alphanumerics

I know by heart the codes for my favorite formatting colors. 0000FF is for blue, FF00FF is for pink, FF0000 is for red and 0000FF is for yellow. And, of course, everyone knows the black color - 000000.

[pocaracas]

Those codes represent something.
Each two "digits" encode one of the RGB colors.
They use hexadecimal notation, so they go from 0 to F (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F).
00 is the decimal zero.
F is the decimal 15.
10 is the decimal 16.
1F is the decimal 31.
FF is the decimal 255.

Each of the Red-Green-Blue colors are encoded in 8 bits which span, in decimal, from 0 to 255, or in hexadecimal, from 0 to FF.

The first set of two hex digits refers to the Red color, the second set refers to the green and the rightmost set is for blue.
FF0000 gives you red
Anything else in those FF, like D40000, we'll give you a darker red.
00FF00 will give you green.
0000FF will give you blue.

Then you just need to mix and match.
Green and blue give you cyan, right? 00FFFF.
Red and green go for yellow tones. FFFF00.
Red and blue? Magenta.

Curious how these mixes are the primary colors used on printers.

Last, but not least, FFFFFF is white.

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[Thumpalumpacus]

unless it's for color, no one know all those goddamned alphanumerics

I know by heart the codes for my favorite formatting colors. 0000FF is for blue, FF00FF is for pink, FF0000 is for red and 0000FF is for yellow. And, of course, everyone knows the black color - 000000.

I didn't know any of those.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Those codes represent something.
Each two "digits" encode one of the RGB colors.
They use hexadecimal notation, so they go from 0 to F (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F).
00 is the decimal zero.
F is the decimal 15.
10 is the decimal 16.
1F is the decimal 31.
FF is the decimal 255.

Each of the Red-Green-Blue colors are encoded in 8 bits which span, in decimal, from 0 to 255, or in hexadecimal, from 0 to FF.

The first set of two hex digits refers to the Red color, the second set refers to the green and the rightmost set is for blue.
FF0000 gives you red
Anything else in those FF, like D40000, we'll give you a darker red.
00FF00 will give you green.
0000FF will give you blue.

Then you just need to mix and match.
Green and blue give you cyan, right? 00FFFF.
Red and green go for yellow tones. FFFF00.
Red and blue? Magenta.

Curious how these mixes are the primary colors used on printers.

Last, but not least, FFFFFF is white.

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So is this industry standard or peculiar to this software?

[pocaracas]

So is this industry standard or peculiar to this software?

Industry standard.
Works on HTML, and the forum operates by generating HTML.

Works on other computer graphics software.... but sometimes, they'll use different color bit-depths.
The normal, for JPEGs and PNG files is the 24 bit color I explained above. 24 bits = 3x8bytes.
PNGs have an extra byte (8 bits), for an overall total of 32bit colors, but the extra byte is only taking care of the transparency level, where, if my memory serves me right, FF corresponds to an opaque color and 00 to a fully transparent color.
For example: FF0000FF is the standard blue, 80FF0000 is a half transparent red, 00FFFFFF is a fully transparent black

GIF files work with a 256 color palette, and some of those can be transparent, so the encoding is different.

On photoshop (and other image manipulation programs), you can increase the color bit-depth of an image, so you can have 12 or 16 bits per color, instead of the normal 8-bits, but the standard person isn't sensitive to these gradations.