When Brian mentioned older browsers/backwards compatibility my first thought was about the "web safe pallette."
On second glance at the question I don't know how relevant it was to the topic. Of course the web safe color pallette isn't very relevant anymore :) Brian, if you were actually referring to whether using #fff instead of #ffffff in a CSS file would cause problems in older browsers - I think perhaps Navigator 4.X had a problem with them (the only browser that did have a problem). Of course, NN4 has problems with most CSS so that can be ignored anyway! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leo J. O'Campo Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 8:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS Shorthand for color On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 03:53 AM, Patrick Lee wrote: > 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. Patrick While we are on the topic of color palettes and standard color notation, IMHO using the web safe palette for desktop websites is like coding for Mosaic. In this day and age, just about any color monitor still working, can display better than 8 bit color. ;-) Leo ***************************************************** 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 *****************************************************
