Re: Netscape-safe palette - a thing of the past?

["Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>]

Keith Cronin wrote:

> Back in 96-97, when I was teaching myself HTML and Web design, I dutifully
> studied Lynda Weinman's authoritative views on colors, including the
> dreaded 216-color palette we were taught was "safe" for the Web. Even then
<snip>
> So - long query short - in this age of better, cheaper computers, is the
> Netscape palette something we need to concern ourselves with anymore?

Lynda Weinman's more recent thoughts on this are at:

http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

Here's an excerpt:

"Though this might seem blasphemous to older readers of my books, or loyal
website visitors, I believe it's safe to design without the palette. I
believe this because so few computer users view the web in 256 colors
anymore."

She does mention some other issues (such as Web sites designed for
phones/PDAs). So YMMV. :-)

Richard


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