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

["Rob Partridge" <rob -at- holly -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi Keith,

I remember the palette being used and promoted because of rendering
problems with browsers. There was a mismatch between rendering a gif of
a particular colour and the web browsers' rendition of that same colour.
The theory was that if you created a gif of a particular solid RGB
colour, and placed it in a table cell with the same background colour,
if you didn't choose the colour from the websafe palette, there will be
a difference in colour between the gif and the cell on some
browser/platform combinations.

I don't know if these problems have been corrected but I see more and
more sites nowadays with wider colour spaces. Perhaps with careful
design and the use of transparent gifs instead of solid colour ones,
designers have learned to avoid the problem.

Rob


-----Original Message-----

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?



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