[thelist] web-safe pallette

Earl Cooley shiva at io.com
Fri Jan 7 16:33:56 CST 2005


Mike wrote:
> For me it doesn't make sense anymore. The 'web safe' colors weren't that
> safe anyway.

Excerpted from "Death of the Websafe Color Palette?" by David Lehn and
Hadley Stern:

"We found that only 22 of the 216 colors we began with did not end up 
being shifted incorrectly in at least one viewing environment. So, it 
looks like we have roughly 22 colors that are really websafe"

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html

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