andilinks — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:33:10 +0000

Thanks for the quick answer. Andi

Suzanne — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:21:48 +0000

There is no reason to stick to websafe anymore for most websites -- if you're creating solely for low-end PDAs, then perhaps.

This is what the expert has to say about it: http://www.lynda.com/hex.html

andilinks — Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:12:13 +0000

Which browsers cannot use "unsafe" colors and won't the "unsafe" color simply render as the nearest "safe" one? I have checked my site with IE6, Opera7 and Mozilla which is what 75% of my visitors use, and I think IE5 will render unsafe colors as well and that's another 20% of my visitors.

I think I'd prefer to design for the 95% and let the rest make do with the default color.

Is there some flaw in this reasoning?

Andi

Busy — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 06:48:06 +0000

If you do want to use non web safe colors for backgrounds, lines etc just make a 10x10, 20x20 square of the color you want and use it as a background.
A plain color wont distort much (within reason)

Megan — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:19:56 +0000

You can also try turning your colour settings down to 256 Colours and see if it looks the same as it did before.

Just as a side note - you'll probably find that very few of your visitors are using 256 colours or less - those are the only people who are affected by the web safe colour limitation really.

mairving — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:13:54 +0000

As a general rule, your websafe colors will be like this:

Websafe colors start with 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF.
Websafe colors are always in pairs like so: FFFFFF.

So valid colors will be FF0000, 666666, CCFFFF, etc.
Invalid colors will be F90000, EEEEEE, CCFFEE, etc.