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Subject:Re: 16 bit color codes. From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- NEXTLEVEL -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 4 Aug 1996 03:36:20 -0800
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 16:10:26 -0400, Sabahat Ashraf wrote:
>Question: What colors are valid for 16 bit monitors or -- 16 bit display
>of any kind? Doing Web pages for users we suspect might want to use that
>mode of display, we were wondering if there was a list of colors
>somewhere that were valid -- and their codes.
Umm, "16-bit"? If you mean 16-bit color *depth*, that would allow you
64k available colors. I don't think any form of HTML, even Netscrap or
Microslop Internet Exploder, support more than 8-bit (256 colors) at
this point...
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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