[AccessD] Web colours (Michael Bahr)

Hi Bob

Interesting. Quite an experience.

/gustav

>>> rbgajewski at adelphia.net 17-04-2008 01:25 >>>
It would also be a good idea to remember that many people have sight
deficiencies with color. It would be prudent to run your design through a
series of filters to be sure that it can easily been seen by all. One such
site to reference is http://colorfilter.wickline.org/.

Best regards,
Bob Gajewski
 

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Web colours (Michael Bahr)

Hi Ken, Mike, Jim et al

Thanks. The old 216 colour palette is very limited on the pale colours which
are so much used today.

As for the browsers, I don't think this is a question of IE or something
else like Firefox or Safari. Any newer browser is capable of handling many
colours but if the video card doesn't, they of course can't. Still, worst
case is some dithering on a very old machine - I can live with that.

/gustav

>>> kismert at gmail.com 15-04-2008 21:09 >>>
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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> From: "Michael Bahr" <jedi at charm.net>
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> 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.
>
> 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