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Posted by News on 01/11/95 11:45
"Jim Higson" <jh@333.org> wrote in message
news:tKWdnccPa8Q5x9vZRVny1w@eclipse.net.uk...
> News wrote:
>
>> Is it true that there is a limited number of colors that can be rendered
>> on the internet?
>>
>> If this is true, where can I go to learn about it?
>>
>> Will the colors in an image be altered if the colors are not the correct
>> hue?
>
> There is a semi-official 'web safe' palette, but these days pretty much
> all
> palettes are web safe so I wouldn't bother. Besides, the few computers
> that
> still reduce the colours won't look all *that* bad.
>
> If you're talking about exact colour rendering (Pantones etc), there's no
> way to get them right, but the PNG format helps a bit because you can
> store
> gamma information (although I'm not sure which browsers will use it, and
> anyway most users won't have their browsers set up for it).
>
> I tend to just get the images looking right on a monitor set up for sRGB,
> and hope they don't vary too much in the wild.
>
> --
> Jim
Thanks
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