[AccessD] Web colours (Michael Bahr)

A vanishingly small percentage of users still use 8-bit video cards
nowadays, so full 24-bit graphics are the norm for the web.

Further, since IE7 supports PNGs with alpha-transparencies, and IE8 is on
the way, it's finally safe to use the full capabilities of the PNG graphic
format. PNG transparencies add a lot of design freedom to a web site.

IE6 doesn't render PNG transparencies without an add-on, but since the IE6
is now 7 years old, and soon 2 versions behind, my response to IE6 users is
increasingly becoming: screw them. Once IE8 comes out, I'm seriously
considering using conditional comments to show a red box only to IE6 and
earlier users, telling them that they aren't getting the optimal browsing
experience because their browser is out-of-date, and urging them to upgrade.

-Ken


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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Michael Bahr" <jedi at charm.net>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <
> accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Web colours
> Hi Gustav, I think it was more browser specific, like Netscape.  And
> perhaps the video cards of that era lacked the horsepower.
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> Mike...
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> > Hi all
> >
> > Those of you designing web pages, do you still stick to the "safe web
> > colours" - the limited selection of 216 colours out of 256 possible
> > colours?
> >
> >   http://www.lynda.com/hex.asp
> >
> > As this Lynda writes, in 1996 this might be a concern, but today where I
> > hardly know nobody having the old 65000 colour resolution, is this still
> > valid in any way?
> > Isn't is safe - at least for normal business use - to just go ahead and
> > use the full RGB scale?
> >
> > /gustav
> >
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