Re: color in netscape vs. IE

Thomas, Sandy and all ....

On one of the newsgroups at Microsoft, this subject came up. The bottom line
of the discussion was that Netscape and IE talked to the Video Cards in a
different manner and there would always be a chance of slight color
variations.

Apparently, this effect is more likely to show up on monitors set to display
the FEWEST colors. 256 for example.

I have one of Microsoft's free toys installed to change monitor resolution
with just a mouse click. (I understand that it is now part of Windows 98)

I just played with it a bit and found no change between the two browsers,
(IE-5 and NN-4.7) at either 640x480 or 800x600 using either "Hi-Color (16
bit) or "True Color" (32 bit).

And sure enough, when set for 256 colors, there was a slight color shift at
800x600 and a more visible one at 640x480.

I am running a slightly long in the tooth, homebuilt Intel Pentium II - 166
MMX with 64 megs. The video card however, is a "dime store" pot metal thing,
cobbled together from old melted down tootsietoys that my computer buddies
dug out of a junk box.

Have I proved anything?? Don't be silly. It just reinforces our suspicions
that nothing is ever universal in this black art.

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/
www.newsredding.com/


> 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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