You use web safe colours to prevent dithering. The "Browser safe" Pallette has 216 colours - many of them ugly :) - it is for viewers with 256 colour (8 bit) displays.
As far as #fff vs #ffffff I think it's really just shorthand, you skip every second...as in #f3a is #ff33aa. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of theGrafixGuy Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] CSS Shorthand for color Does anyone know of a calculator or reference one can use to translate hex into triple hex? Referring here to using #FFF instead of #FFFFFF for white as an example. Additionaly, are their any issues or bugs known in regards to using said color method? So far my experiments are showing up just fine, but I only run the latest browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, IE6) Brian ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.624 / Virus Database: 401 - Release Date: 15/03/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.624 / Virus Database: 401 - Release Date: 15/03/2004 ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
