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Nov 24, 2003 10:17 pm		re: Death of Websafe Palette - or worse?
Haim Hirsch		I was always led to believe that the web-safe palette was all about avoiding ugly dithering. The article you mentioned explains the browser-color-rendering issue very well with respect to background colors defined by the HTML. Apparently the palette is now down to 22 colors. Web designers do have other alternatives for background color rendering, and can usually get around that issue pretty easily. What is typically unavoidable for a general web audience is the color rendering of the actual monitor. I have had to explain to a number of clients that even if we matched the website color EXACTLY to their brochure on their screen, it would look different on my screen...and it would look different on their laptop screen... Rarely does color need to be so precisely defined (Hunter Green vs. Forest Green). When such precision is necessary (see, for example online clothing companies such as Lands End) an offline sample is usually the best solution. For the purpose of applications, there are more than enough distinct colors to effectively differentiate an appropriate informational resolution for human-readable needs. Doppler radar map coloration that demonstrates this to a small extent can be found at Weather.com. With newer graphics cards and monitors, dithering is rarely a problem. Our computers can display more colors than most people can identify (even using modifiers such as "light" and "dark"). Is the Websafe Palette dead? No. But, I would definitely argue that it is Irrelevant from a Usability standpoint. -Haim Private Reply to Haim Hirsch (new win)

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