[thelist] Color Concensus

[Christopher Orth - HQ]

I was at a Macromedia Web World conference about a month ago, and the
general consensus between most of the presenters seemed to be that the new
target platform was 800X600 at millions of colors.

I have been leaning this way myself lately.  The really trick to non web
safe colors is to test on different platforms, not to see if the color is
the same, but to see if the color is acceptably similar.  You would not try
this tactic on a corporate logo of course, but really, if a side nav bar
background is a bit more salmony in Mac than Windows, its not a big deal.
You just want to avoid the colors that completely fall apart when moving
cross platform.

With all the industry pushing buzzwords like "multimedia" and "powerful
generation whatever processors", its hard to think that any new purchase in
the last couple of years would need those lower standards.  In fact, sources
like Stat market tend to mostly agree.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin burns [mailto:martin at members.evolt.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:39 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Color Concensus
> 
> 
> Adam wrote:
> 
> >  Has the school of thought 
> > > on the standard 216 changed?
> > 
> > Well, sort of. It seems that lots of folks seem to think it's
> > unnecessary to
> > cater to the 216 palette as most computers can display 
> millions (24-bit)
> > of
> > colors.
> 
> Also many sites are designed by people who run their fast 
> machines at millions of colours and 1600px resolution, 
> forgetting that their audience ain't all like that.
> 
> Many PCs come from the factory at 8bit 640x480, and many 
> users have nfi how to change this.
> 
> The designers in question will no doubt wibble on about 'the 
> brand', forgetting that they can't do Pantone online.
> 
> > The problem with this thinking is that pretty soon, most 
> browsing will
> > be
> > done on handhelds, appliances, phones, and other small 
> devices (well,
> > maybe
> > not "most" but a good chunk). Most of these will have 8-bit 
> displays, if
> > they're color at all.
> +1 on this
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
> 
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