You can also try turning your colour settings down to 256 Colours and see if it looks the same as it did before.
Just as a side note - you'll probably find that very few of your visitors are using 256 colours or less - those are the only people who are affected by the web safe colour limitation really.
If you do want to use non web safe colors for backgrounds, lines etc just make a 10x10, 20x20 square of the color you want and use it as a background.
A plain color wont distort much (within reason)
andilinks posted this at 18:12 — 19th October 2003.
Which browsers cannot use "unsafe" colors and won't the "unsafe" color simply render as the nearest "safe" one? I have checked my site with IE6, Opera7 and Mozilla which is what 75% of my visitors use, and I think IE5 will render unsafe colors as well and that's another 20% of my visitors.
I think I'd prefer to design for the 95% and let the rest make do with the default color.
Is there some flaw in this reasoning?
Andi
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mairving posted this at 02:13 — 2nd January 2002.
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As a general rule, your websafe colors will be like this:
So valid colors will be FF0000, 666666, CCFFFF, etc.
Invalid colors will be F90000, EEEEEE, CCFFEE, etc.
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Megan posted this at 02:19 — 2nd January 2002.
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You can also try turning your colour settings down to 256 Colours and see if it looks the same as it did before.
Just as a side note - you'll probably find that very few of your visitors are using 256 colours or less - those are the only people who are affected by the web safe colour limitation really.
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Busy posted this at 06:48 — 2nd January 2002.
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If you do want to use non web safe colors for backgrounds, lines etc just make a 10x10, 20x20 square of the color you want and use it as a background.
A plain color wont distort much (within reason)
andilinks posted this at 18:12 — 19th October 2003.
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Which browsers cannot use "unsafe" colors and won't the "unsafe" color simply render as the nearest "safe" one? I have checked my site with IE6, Opera7 and Mozilla which is what 75% of my visitors use, and I think IE5 will render unsafe colors as well and that's another 20% of my visitors.
I think I'd prefer to design for the 95% and let the rest make do with the default color.
Is there some flaw in this reasoning?
Andi
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Suzanne posted this at 18:21 — 19th October 2003.
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There is no reason to stick to websafe anymore for most websites -- if you're creating solely for low-end PDAs, then perhaps.
This is what the expert has to say about it: http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
andilinks posted this at 18:33 — 19th October 2003.
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Thanks for the quick answer.
Andi
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