Jack,
Those are JavaScripts predefined colors ala Netscape. There are 140 of them
as far as I know. And yes, some of them do shit out fairly bad.
Ron
At 09:17 AM 11/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Fred Lazarus wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Gerry Ott wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All:
>> >
>> > I HAD a bookmarked url for a site that gave the hex codes as well as the
>> > names of Web colors (eg: beige, darkblue, salmon, etc.) but I can't seem
>> > to find it. Now I have a need to translate backwards from name to hex
>> > code. Can anybody supply me with the url of a site which provides such
>> > info?
>
>> 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?
>
>Jack
>
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