Can anyone tell me when to use palette colors and when to use Web Safe colors…?

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Nov 28, 2005
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Can anyone tell me when to use palette colors and when to use Web Safe colors…?
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Tacit
Nov 28, 2005
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"viranjali" wrote:

Can anyone tell me when to use palette colors and when to use Web Safe colors…?

When you create a GIF, you want to use Web Safe colors only if you believe your Web viewers will be looking on your Web site using antique computers with 256-color video cards.

Back in the day, it was important to try to build Web pages using the so-called "Web safe" color palette because most people had graphics cards that could only show 256 colors at one time. The "Web safe" palette was the set of colors that Netscape Navigator would show in common on both Mac and PC systems that had 8-bit graphics cards.

Today, any computer you buy is going to have a graphics card capable of displaying millions of colors at once. For a computer with a modern graphics card, the Web safe color palette is not necessary or relevant.

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Mike Russell
Nov 28, 2005
"tacit" wrote in message
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Today, any computer you buy is going to have a graphics card capable of displaying millions of colors at once. For a computer with a modern graphics card, the Web safe color palette is not necessary or relevant.

I would add that PDA and phone browsers are becoming more common. If your images will be primarily viewed on a handheld computer or cell phone, you may want to stick with web safe.
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Tacit
Nov 28, 2005
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"Mike Russell" wrote:

I would add that PDA and phone browsers are becoming more common. If your images will be primarily viewed on a handheld computer or cell phone, you may want to stick with web safe.

Do cell phones and PDAs use the same palette as old Windows and Mac systems? I’d be quite surprised if that were the case. More likely, a new "PDA-safe" palette would be needed for such devices.

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viranjali
Dec 9, 2005
Thanks Tacit & mike russell…

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