Re: web safe background

It would explain it in 16 bit (65k colors) actually (or at least
possibly). WebMonkey found out that Netscape 218 doesn't always do so
well on 16 bit. There are only ~20 truly web-safe colors, as it turns
out. Don't that stink? The worst part is that they are mostly in the
green and yellow areas. I'm with some of these other folks, and just
about to give up on old tech!
Looking here: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/February/colors.html,
you can see that the 256 color folks have mostly dissappeared, and
looking here: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/February/browser.html
you can see that NS 4.x isn't far behind. DEATH TO OLD TECH!!! And while
it's dying, if it could whine a little less, I'd appreciate it (where's
that big fluffy pillow?).

Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
To: "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>; "'Peter Anderson'"
<peter(at)launch-pad.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: web safe background


| I'm SUSPECTING that it dithers because he's got 16-color mode on, not
16-bit
| (65 thousand) color mode, but could be wrong. Peter, you might want to
check
| that. Also, if possible, switch up to 24-bit (16.7 million colors)
mode.
| 990000 is NOT in the 16-color pallette, (the closest is 7F0000) which
is why
| I suspect the wrong color mode.
|
| Tim, 990000 IS a websafe color. Values of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF
in the
| red, green, or blue units are considered part of the 216 web-safe
color
| list. Therefore 99 Red 00 Green and 00 Blue is a web-safe color. That
| doesn't explain the dithering, though...
|
| Kehvan
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
| To: "'Peter Anderson'" <peter(at)launch-pad.com>;
<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
| Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 13:54
| Subject: RE: web safe background
|
|
| | Interesting.
| |
| | If it dithers in two browsers on your system, then why do you refer
to it
| as
| | a web safe colour?
| |
| | Tim
| |
| |
| |
| | www.timbooker.com
| |
| |
| |
| |
| | > -----Original Message-----
| | > From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
| | > [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Peter Anderson
| | > Sent: 26 March 2001 20:59
| | > To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
| | > Subject: web safe background
| | >
| | >
| | > I'm having a strange problem with a web safe background color
| | > 990000. It's
| | > dithering on my PC with 16 bits of color enabled. Anyone ever
| | > experience
| | > this problem? It's the strangest thing I've ever seen. The
| | > background color
| | > is spec'd in the code correctly, it just dithers in both IE as
well as
| | > Netscape. Weird.
| | >
| | > Peter
| | >
| | >
| | >
| |
| |
|

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