Remember the 256 web-safe colors? Supposedly they would work on any machine. Today I saw an article saying with the advent of new browsers, there were only 22 web-safe colors, if you wanted low-color, true-color AND high-color machines to be able to view without horrible misshapen color permutations.

That article, which was cited on the HWG-Techniques list, is however, well over a year old, and things have changed since then, I expect. The article does offer some interesting stats and suggest severalstrategies for dealing with the disparities among browsers. I hope to see an update soon.


-- posted by Palema on 4/14/2002