Posted by frederick on 01/24/06 11:45

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 and others that said it is obsolete.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.


--
AGw.

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