Re: WebSafe Colours :: The Low-down?

"Paul Taylor" <pftaylor (AT) technocurve (DOT) co.uk> wrote

On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 13:53:12 GMT, "Hunter Elliott"
nospam (AT) gatewaycity (DOT) com> wrote:


"WebDev" <tj_langford (AT) hotREMOVEmail (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Does anybody (Designers etc) still strictly adhere to using "web-safe"
colours??

As a designer I used to always use ONLY websafe colours but now I've
just
started using non-websafe - I know that Dreamweaver uses the websafe
colour
pallette as standard but I'd really like to know what everyone's view
on
this is?

I don't know that I've ever followed the websafe palette. This is a good
article on the death of said subject:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html



Lynda Weinmann is the expert on this, and she suggests that the web
safe palette is not needed any more. She invented the websafe palette.
www.lynda.com

I'd say that's probably true for about 90% computer users.
A computer displaying only 256 colors is getting harder and harder to find.
The other consideration would be bandwidth, so a limited color palette is
still a good idea, but you won't lose a huge number of visitors by not using
websafe.
I'm a Lynda fan