Webadmin - Tenbus
spike at tenbus.co.uk
Tue Apr 15 14:16:09 CDT 2008
Hello Gustav! As I recall it was an operating system problem. There was about 40 or so colours where Windows and Mac could not agree. This left the so-called 216 "web-safe colors". I think this is pretty much dead these day. The wikipedia page (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors>) agrees with me ;-) Regards! Chris Foote Michael Bahr wrote: > Hi Gustav, I think it was more browser specific, like Netscape. And > perhaps the video cards of that era lacked the horsepower. > > Mike... > > >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > > >