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Posted by News on 04/21/06 18:05
frederick@southernskies.co.uk wrote:
> News wrote:
>> No kidding? I did that and found heaps of sites that said it is
>> STILL valid and others that said it is obsolete. I am not a caveman
>> and don't think just because it is painted on the wall it must be
>> true
>
> A useful attitude to have, particularly when using Google to find
> discussions of best web practice. It's amazing how long some pages
> stay up!
>
> Regarding "web-safe colours":
> It's mainly used to refer to a palette of 216 colours that were
> rendered identically on both Microsoft Windows and Apple systems, and
> in both Netscape Navigator (remember that?!) and Internet Explorer.
> This was back when many or most people had lower-resolution monitors
> with a lesser colour depth, of course; not to mention the annoying
> practice amongst OEMs of selling customers monitors capable of a
> higher resolution but which left the factory set at a lower one.
>
> Anyhoo, since even mobile 'phones can usually handle millions of
> colours, it's a historical curiosity in most cases. Gamma and
> whatever else might mean that the millions of colours that I see
> aren't exactly the same as the ones that you do, but unless you're
> developing a website for a paint manufacturer it's largely going to
> be a technical irrelevancy. IMHO, YMMV, etc.
I see about seven colors anyway. It just don't matter what shade it is, it
is still PINK
Thanks
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