At 09:56 AM 11/11/98 -0800, Gill, Kathy so eloquently stated:
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 9:17 AM
>>
>>
>> > http://www.almonte.com/color3.html
>>
>> As far as my understanding of web-color and the 216-color palette is
>> concerned, the named colors used on the page linked above stray frequently
>> from the web-safe pallet. For example, of the first five colors listed,
>> only
>> one of them (aqua) falls inside the 216 color palette:
>>
>> #F0F8FF aliceblue
>> #FAEBD7 antiquewhite
>> #00FFFF aqua
>> #7FFFD4 aquamarine
>> #F0FFFF azure
>>
>> What is the reasoning behind using so many of these color names if they
>> will
>> produce unpredictable results on some user's machines? If it's just for
>> convenience sake, why where so many color names devised that fall outside
>> the web-safe palette?
>>
>Two different issues -- defining "colors" that can be understood by the
>browser via a "name" and using browser-safe colors.
>
>I personally do not use "color names" for the exact reason you just
>outlined.
>
>My color table is the browser-safe palette:
>http://www.dotparagon.com/resources/color.html
>
>
I don't know why Brent Eades hasn't mentioned that excellent tool
I got from him some time ago. It is a palette gif that you load
in when you load Paint Shop Pro and the colors are always there.
It had the RGB and the other codes for identifying the colors.
It is a 216k gif.
George
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