[Sigia-l] web safe colors

[andrew]

Oops,

yep, sorry, the reference was to thin client machines with 8-bit colour :)

My apologies.

Cheers, Andrew

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 22:30, andrew wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> someone slap me for a pedant if I have this wrong, (its been that kind of a
> day) :) but aren't there just 216 websafe colours not the expected 256?
>
> Cheers, Andrew
>
> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 01:53, Mike Combs wrote:
> > I disagree with Ziya. <ducking>
> >
> > I would not make that general a characterization....
> >
> > You need to know your audience.  I design intranet applications for a
> > large company where all the branch offices use thin clients for to access
> > the Internet, and they only see 256 colors on their monitors.
> >
> > I take the approach of graceful degradation.  If you stray from the web
> > safe world, then pick colors that will degrade best when viewed on a 256
> > color monitor - and test the pages in 256 colors.
> >
> > > Is there a consensus on using websafe these days?
> > > Roughly comparable to the NN4 browser problem.
> >
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