[Sigia-l] web safe colors

[James M. Herrera]

Yes, there are 216 common colors between the Macintosh and Windows
platforms. So, if you were trying (in the old days) to ensure color
consistency between platforms you would stay with the 216 palette.

James

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James M Herrera
jherrera at gamerra.com

http://www.gamerra.com




> Hello, andrew:
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> By one measure, yes, that is correct. The 256 is somewhat reduced, to
> 216.
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> Best regards,
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> David            
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> http://zillionbucks.com -- Web hosting for the creative industry
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> Tuesday, October 01, 2002, 8:30:05 AM, you wrote:
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> a> Hi Folks,
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> 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?
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> a> Cheers, Andrew
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> a> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 01:53, Mike Combs wrote:
>>> I disagree with Ziya. <ducking>
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>>> I would not make that general a characterization....
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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