[thelist] is the web-safe palete dead?

[Moe Rubenzahl]

Question is not what's right or what's wrong, but who will you
impact? If your site appeals to home users, especially those on older
computers, your rules would be different from someone doing a
corporate site, for instance.

In this case, for most of us, a pretty small audience will be
impacted by color outside the safe-216, and even for them, the page
will still look ok, just dithered.

For what it's worth, my rule is: Go first to web-safe colors for
broad expanses (e.g. page or table backgrounds) but if you want
something outside that palette, go ahead. Just know it will impact
some percentage of your viewers and you get to decide if that matters.

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Subject: [thelist] is the web-safe palete dead?
Author: Andrew Gianni
Date: 3/25/02 5:06 PM -0800

>I haven't been paying that much attention, and I only recently joined this
>list, so I'm assuming this has been hashed and rehashed, but it's a changing
>issue and even Lynda Weinman says it's not important anymore for most
>situations:
>
>http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
>
>I'm sure there are people who hold strong opinions on this topic, so I hope
>I'm not opening a can of worms.
>
>Andrew
>
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