Re: "navy" color in gif

G'day

> As Jim stated, Navy is not a "browser-safe" color. The 216
> browser/platform/whatever-safe colors consist of only these six numbers
and
> letters: 0, 3, 6, 9, C, F.

Why is it not browser safe?  It is a standard windows color.  According to
one source (http://www.webreference.com/dev/graphics/palette.html), the 216
colors were arrived at follows:

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The Windows Palette
Windows 3.x was designed around the ubiquitous 256-color VGA graphics board.
Windows computers reserve 20 of these colors for system use; the first and
last ten colors. Netscape reserves an additional 13 colors for its logo,
which leaves 223 colors available to the user. Netscape's programmers
reduced this figure to 216 colors (Figure 2), which is the closest cube root
below 223

---end quote---

Isn't Navy a Windows System color?  The dark blue that you see in programs
like Paint?  In Outlook Express?  In Office?  Why would it not be safe to
use a SYSTEM color?  Just doesn't make sense to me.  But maybe I'm reading
it wrong.

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