[tlug] Re: Color Codes

[Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com>]

Brett Robson wrote:

> http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html
> *Death of the Websafe Color Palette?*
> As we just concluded, High Color systems share no colors with your 
> standard Photoshop 24-bit color palette (except for black and white). 
> Consequently, browsers running on High Color systems have to perform 
> this request for a new color continually. Since High Color is still a 
> good color depth, the colors that the system chooses are usually good 
> (solid, true colors), but they're not exactly what you thought you were 
> getting when you originally selected the colors for your site.

Interesting.
With firefox, even their so-called "Reallysafe Palette" is not
safe, as it is dithering the gifs, but not the backgrounds.
But that is barely noticable, unless you look at it _really_ close.

So it really boils down to inconsistent browser-behaviour (as they
also state in their article).

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