Hi Mark, The "Web Safe" colors are intended to be the most universally safe colors in a standard RGB palette. Each component in a web-safe color is either 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, or FF. The reason they're called "web safe" is because they are considered to be the colors that are most universally represented in 256-color system palettes across all platforms, whether it's a Mac or Windows browser.
However, as time has gone on, and as video cards become better, the Web-safe restriction doesn't seem to be as important any more. It's highly limiting, and we've found that there is very little difference any more between using a web-safe color and a non-web-safe color. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Fuqua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: [plum] color numbering > Good Afternoon, > > When I examine the contents of the baseStyleSheet.css and other parts of the > layout within plum, all the colors are referenced as such: #D2E2FF > > #0040B2 > > #FF8600 > > These are different than the "web safe" color numbers I am used to. Are > these Window OS colors and are they limited to windows boxes? There seem to > be alot more choices. Cool colors. Is it safe to use all of them? > > Sorry for the newbie question. > > Mark Fuqua > > > > > ********************************************************************** > You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change > your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: > > http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
