Color match?

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:56:18 +1000, brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info> wrote:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=WCdBa.5199$ES.58161 (AT) news-server (DOT) bigpond.net.au

"Of the 'web
safe' colours the only two these cards can display accurately are black and
white. All of the others are colour shifted by the hardware on the card."

Waaaaa...

Neal wrote:

I may keep #408080 altogether. And cry in my sleep.

Try #428484. Please? Just so we can determine if it works on your system. It
works on mine.

Besides, 42 is a Very Important Number.

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Richard.

brucie wrote:

In alt.html.critique rf said:

I had a huge rant a couple or three years ago on the subject of 15 bit
safe
colours and the now obsolete web safe colours.It'll be in the archive
somewhere.

no need to look i saved the article ID in my links where it couldn't
escape:

rf's novella on web safe colors:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=WCdBa.5199$ES.58161 (AT) news-server (DOT) bigpond.net.au

Strewth. I didn't think it was *that* big :-)

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Richard.

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:04:46 GMT, rf <rf@.invalid> wrote:

Neal wrote:

I may keep #408080 altogether. And cry in my sleep.

Try #428484. Please? Just so we can determine if it works on your
system. It
works on mine.

On the background-color and/or on the image?

brucie wrote:
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Cheers
Richard.

rf's novella on web safe colors:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=WCdBa.5199$ES.58161 (AT) news-server (DOT) bigpond.net.au

There is another novella laying around somewhere on the difference between
24 and 15 bit colour and a discussion on why web safe colours don't fit into
15 bit colour space. Basically an expansion of the last paragraph in the
above. It did extend into exactly how 15 bit colour cards do their thing and
why it's futile to cater to them.

I'll have a look around for it :-)

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Richard.

Neal wrote:

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:52:32 +1000, brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info> wrote:

my cute little eyes and my eyedropper report the image and the other
green are the same color here: http://moreshit.usenetshit.info/neal/

16bit both: #428284
32bit both: #408080

Opera - Yay.
IE - Yay.
Firefox - Boo. At 16-bit.

If you are talking about brucies shit link above then I get perfect results
with firefox at 16 bits.

Can you post a screenshot of your system somewhere, preferably a bmp so
there is no colour alteration (as a gif would and a jpeg would) (a small
one, just that corner) or a png?

You have me intrigued and when I am intrigued you don't get off lightly :-)

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Richard.

Neal wrote

On the background-color and/or on the image?

Both.

Then again see brucies shit.

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Richard.

Neal

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:56:18 +1000, brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info> wrote:


http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=WCdBa.5199$ES.58161 (AT) news-server (DOT) bigpond.net.au

"Of the 'web
safe' colours the only two these cards can display accurately are black
and
white. All of the others are colour shifted by the hardware on the card."

Waaaaa...

Yep. I'll now *have* to dig up the article on 15 bit cards :-) Stand by...

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Cheers
Richard.

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 06:20:00 GMT, rf <rf@.invalid> wrote:

Can you post a screenshot of your system somewhere, preferably a bmp so
there is no colour alteration (as a gif would and a jpeg would) (a small
one, just that corner) or a png?

You have me intrigued and when I am intrigued you don't get off lightly
:-)

Quick and dirty:


http://users.rcn.com/neal413/ie.bmp
http://users.rcn.com/neal413/opera.bmp
http://users.rcn.com/neal413/firefox.bmp

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:51:21 +1000, brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info> wrote:

In alt.html.critique Neal said:

Opera - Yay.
IE - Yay.
Firefox - Boo. At 16-bit.

are you using the latest graphics driver for your card and directx?

As far as I am aware, yes. I am stoopid though.