[thelist] is the web-safe palete dead?

[aardvark]

> From: "cdj" <chris at fuzzylizard.com>
>
> I tend to agree with this point of view, but... I have heard that some
> colors when viewed through AOL's browser just don't translate well. I
> am not sure what those colors are, I have just heard they exist. This
> would seem to be a fairly big argument for sticking to the web safe
> colors if this is the case.
[...]

AOL's servers compress images before sending them out to
users... this means that even though your .jpg photo might look
beautiful on your system, an AOL user is likely going to see a
version of it run through some heavily lossy compression, making it
pretty fugly...