Re: color in netscape vs. IE

hi sandy and thomas,
the safest way that *I* know of to deal with color is to make a 1-pixel gif
of your desired bgcolor.  it should match your images just fine.
kara

At 12:09 PM 6/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
>At 08:34 AM 06/01/00, Thomas Carreno wrote:
>
>>I made 4 gif images which fit in each corner of the orange square you see
>>there. In IE the orange color of the background and the orange color of the
>>gif looks exactly the same. But in Netscape the color of the gif is slightly
>>different than the color of the background?!
>
>Funny you should mention this.  I'm having a similar problem.  I created an 
>image in PSP.  White background with orange text.  I used 255,102,0 to set 
>my color.  Then I used the same numbers to set the color in the html file, 
>and the colors are very obviously different.  The text in the image is
darker.
>
>I also had the same problem as you with a background color in an image not 
>matching the background color on the page when both colors have been 
>specified exactly the same.  I simply made my image transparent and that 
>took care of the problem.
>
>It still doesn't explain it though.
>
>Btw, I'm using Netscape 4.7.
>
>-- Sandy
>Sannicron Web Design
>http://www.sannicron.com
>
>

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