Websafe Colors

[wampthing]

How important is having the colors of your page be websafe?

 

I have always tried to stick to websafe colors, but got to thinking. "If I have photos, then I am certainly requiring the enduser to have a monitor that does more than just a limited amount of colors. Why not just code with any color I want as well?"

[TCH-Bruce]

I always code colors that appeal to me. And I've noticed they look different on some monitors. But they are close so I don't worry about it.

[Kevan]

I use dual monitors with my laptop at home and at work. That means 3 different monitors on one laptop. I can drag a window from monitor to monitor and out of the two possible combinations no two monitors display colors the same. (21" CRT, 17" widescreen XGA and Dell flat panel lcd) I'm told the web safe colors are "for older browsers and monitors"

[abinidi]

I stopped using "web-safe" colors exculsivley a couple of years ago. I've never had anybody complain.

 

Just like I stopped creating 640x480 websites and nobody has complained. (I still try for 800x600 though...

[TCH-Don]

I would advise you stick to the original 16 colors

 

 

 

 

No seriously, I don't worry about it.

 

There can't be that many with their monitors set to lores yet.

[wampthing]

Why do people take a single pixel of a color and have that be their background as opposed to just doing it via html?

[Kevan]

What do you mean Dave?

[TCH-Bruce]

He means using an image to produce the background color versus just using the color statement.

[TCH-Don]

The 1 pixel background used to be common to get around the web safe color limit for a background color.

Although 1 pixel is load intensive compared to 100x100.

You don't see this used much anymore.