[thelist] is the web-safe palete dead?

Paul Backhouse paul.backhouse at 2cs.com
Tue Mar 26 08:46:01 CST 2002


Well excuse ME! :-)

-----Original Message-----
er... maybe change what "websafe" means (like webmonkey did by
showing that 16-bit displays don't do websafe, leaving only 22 color
*truly* websafe)...

but websafe, as it stands now, means the colors that display at 8-
bit and are the same across Macs and PCs... granted, it's a short-
sighted concept (note the 22 color argument, and other platforms),
but it was initially designed to help consistency in color and avoid
bizarre color shifts and dithering...

in short, you can't *add* colors the web-safe palette unless you
redefine what web-safe is...




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