[Sigia-l] web safe colors

[David R. Austen]

Hello, andrew:


By one measure, yes, that is correct. The 256 is somewhat reduced, to
216.


Best regards,

David                       

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Tuesday, October 01, 2002, 8:30:05 AM, you wrote:

a> Hi Folks,

a> someone slap me for a pedant if I have this wrong, (its been that kind of a 
a> day) :) but aren't there just 216 websafe colours not the expected 256?

a> Cheers, Andrew

a> 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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