[Sigia-l] web safe colors

[andrew]

The measure is, and again someone slap me down if I have it wrong, 6 ^ 3 :)

Cheers, Andrew

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 04:08, David R. Austen wrote:
> 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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> 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.
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> >> > Is there a consensus on using websafe these days?
> >> > Roughly comparable to the NN4 browser problem.
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