[thelist] is the web-safe palete dead?

[Paul Backhouse]

Hmmm...its an interesting topic which I've had many a conversation with our
designers about.
They believe that you can do non-websafe colors on web designs. I sort of
feel the same - but I prefer doing them in websafe colours.
But if you test non-safe web colors in 256 colors it doesn't look that bad -
you can get away with it in some circumstances.

I read somewhere that the websafe color range is due to be extended - buti
wouldn't hold any hopes too high, its unlikely this will happen for a while
yet.

cheers

paul


-----Original Message-----
Hi Andrew Gianni,
Right now, only 4% of the visitors have 256 colors (or less).

So you can degrade your colors to accommodate this 4%.

But why degrade your colors for 96% of your visitors for
the 4% of your visitors who don't care about nice colors anyway?

(I think a lot of these 4% only has to select 'High Colors' or
'True Colors' in a control panel.) The last video adapter
with 256 colors I saw in a store was in 1993! Only notebooks
took a while longer to switch to more colors.

Just use the best colors. The browsers of these less capable 4%
will degrade de colors automatically. (It might look worse, but
they asked for it).

That's my opinion (since '94).

Edwin Martin.



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