[thelist] Dangerous Colors

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Niklaus

It's actually harder to design with restrictions - look at how many
designers can't be bothered working around HTML and plump
for Flash.

fwiw, I've seen far too many factory installs arrive with 256 colour
800x600 setups (even though the hardware will support millions at
much higher resolutions), and many corporate users have the same.

Cheers
Martin





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I reckon there aren't many 256 color monitors left today. And after all
exact colors aren't crucial to most websites - no one uses such slightly
different hues, that two colors could look the same when rendered to the
web safe palette. And different settings across different OS can make a
color look totally different on different monitors even with full blown 16
million colors.

<cynical>
Might it be, that most web designers tend to use web safe colors only,
because it's easier to choose from just 216 colors than from 16 millions?
</cynical>



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