Jeffrey, I tried to take a

ukcraig — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:58:39 +0000

Jeffrey,
I tried to take a look @ the colour safe guide on your site, but in Nutscrape the page comes up totally blank

The rest of your site looks good though, and I too have bookmarked it for later reference.

Jeffrey Ellison — Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:14:00 +0000

Craig,

Thanks for making me aware of the page problem in Netscape. I spent my morning fixing this and you'll now be able to see both http://www.eons.com/216color.htm and http://www.eons.com/136color.htm correctly in Netscape 2.x and higher and IE 3.x and higher.

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JP Stones — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:26:00 +0000

Jeff,
I was just curious about the pallete. Do all browsers dither to the closest colour or do some just - only - use these 256 colours not do any dithering?
JP

JP Stones — Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:55:00 +0000

Hi John, Jeffrey,
I paid little attention to this palette when designing the What Next? http://what-next.com site and have recently recieved a message from a visitor complaining that on his system, the orange looked red and made it hard to read with the blue as they are atn opposite end of the spectrum. This just shows the importance of this palette.
JP

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John Sutton — Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:10:00 +0000

Jeffrey,

I visited your web site...WOW

I wish I had discovered these tools a long time ago. I bookmarked your site, I'll be surfin' by often. Thanks!

John

Jeffrey Ellison — Fri, 29 Jan 1999 04:04:00 +0000

When specifying colors for HTML page backgrounds, fonts, and other elements for 256-color displays, it is wise to choose from the 216 colors that look identical on both PC and Mac operating systems. Both the Netscape (Navigator and Communicator) and Microsoft (Internet Explorer) browsers have to work without the colors that each operating system reserves for itself. Since there are a total of 40 reserved colors on both systems, that leaves 216 colors for you to use. If you use one of the 40 colors, each system tries to approximate it with some combination of the 216 acceptable colors, called dithering. Unfortunately, each operating system does dithering a bit differently. The result on a browser on one or both of the operating systems is likely to be not what you intended.

By using only the colors in the "browser-safe palette" table located at http://www.eons.com/216color.htm , you can be certain that your colors will look the same on both operating systems, in both browsers. The table shows both the hexadecimal and RGB value that you need to specify in the <BODY> tag for backgrounds and in the <FONT> and other tags containing color attributes.

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Jeffrey Ellison
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