Re: [css-d] Web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe colours

2007-01-24 Thread Vicki Smith
tedd wrote: Limiting colors these days is pointless. I would suggest that the Government of Canada spend it's time and resources on things that matter? After all, the Government of Canada did waste it's time enforcing web-safe colors which were anything but web-safe. Now, they want to

[css-d] Web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe colours

2007-01-23 Thread HARDIE.CA
The Government of Canada has issued its second version of its Common Look and Feel Guidelines, and lo and behold they're mandating a CSS-driven design for all GoC websites! They have even dropped support for web-safe colours, but they are now mandating that all colours on GoC websites conform

Re: [css-d] Web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe colours

2007-01-23 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 23/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Government of Canada has issued its second version of its Common Look and Feel Guidelines, and lo and behold they're mandating a CSS-driven design for all GoC websites! They have even dropped support for web-safe colours, but they

Re: [css-d] Web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe colours

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Goodchild
I don't think that many designers worry about web-safe colours these days - and even back in the day according to some articles the REAL web-safe pallette was much less than 216 colours. But these days I think it's pretty much a redundant approach. Go for sRGB.

Re: [css-d] Web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe colours

2007-01-23 Thread tedd
At 10:17 PM + 1/23/07, Dave Goodchild wrote: I don't think that many designers worry about web-safe colours these days - and even back in the day according to some articles the REAL web-safe pallette was much less than 216 colours. But these days I think it's pretty much a redundant approach.