Websafe colours?!
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- Eurodata
Why do people talk about his, arent these colours histor of 1993 when people had 256 colours on their displays.
- schjetne0
I don't think many people are running 256 color displays in 2002...
You may notice though that the difference between 16 bit and 32 bit displays may at times be quite huge. I run 32 bit display, and I recommend that to everyone I meet / talk to, but I've had a few problems with my sites not looking right on 16 bit displays. Color shifts and other annoying things.
Yeah well, that's only one of the reasons why I try to stick to print...
- Ctrl_Z0
you mean the interweb has color?
I must upgrade my monochome monitor!
- schjetne0
You've missed out on some cool stuff, Ctrl_Z. The interweb has had colors for at least two years, maybe more.
- neeko0
my eyes can only interpret the 216 colors of the web safe pallette, and id appreciate it if we all tried to stick to just using them.
216 is lots.
- krizinbizz0
quite a few large companies uses "light client" hardware.. those displays no more than 256 colors.
- schjetne0
That is SO not true!
Most light clients nowadays have at least 500 colors! Maybe even more at times.
Seriously, though. I've worked with these things (computers, light clients, etc), and from experience I must say that usually the monitors on these clients hold the same standards as the rest of the world (mostly).
What a load of crap coming out of my keyboard fingers today. I am amazed.
- blend0
Doesn't websafe also mean that the color should work on all operating systems and computer platforms? I mean colors will always look different due to differences in monitors, but the exact colours should be implemented as native in all the different graphics cards' hardware. So it is not the question of how many colours you have, but rather which exact colours you have. Of course the relevance is diminishing all the time.
BTW: Why is it so hard to make flash bg the same color as html bg? I see too many sites with that annoying difference in shade.
- schjetne0
"Why is it so hard to make flash bg the same color as html bg? I see too many sites with that annoying difference in shade."
Switch to 32 bit display (Right Clcik desktop, Click Properties), and there's no difference. You are running 16 bit display.
- krizinbizz0
schjetne, maybe you're right. i can only speak for those i've worked with myself and those were 256-color clients. however, the world moves on and they might have more colors now.
- schjetne0
Most companies with thin clients block their eployees from using the internet anyway, so there shouldn't be a problem. At least that's the deal where I am.
- blend0
hmmm.... thanks schjetne.
My piece of shit laptop is not supporting any reasonable resolution, if I switch to 32 bit though. Luckily I'm getting another one as we have been going through some restructuring :)
- quamb0
websafe colours are relevant- as blend says, its a matter on colours that you can trust- not how many colours the user can see.
and even when ones hardware is showing all these amazing colours, your browser is only rendering these web safe colours- believe it or not. your video card jumps on and says "stuff this, i wanna make these images nice" and does its thing.
what am i talken about?
does your video card talk to you too?
- sp0
- CyBrainX0
No.
Web safe colors are from the same era as 640x480 monitors. Unless your are targetting a specific type of segment that has 7 year old monitors, you are crippling your work.
The arguement about predictable color does not hold, unless you are completely banning the use of jpegs in your work as well. How far do you want to go to appease <3% of the general users?
- kpl0
oh come on. crippling work?
part of being a designer is working with the limitations of your medium. Do you get antsy having to work in cmyk instead of 7 color process?